Space Age Energy in the Suburbs?

[beetiger]

Solar energy for the price of your regular utility bill?

-Ignoring for the moment the fact that this is a startup that may or may not be able to do what they promise,

-Understanding that if I actually put in my own solar panels, it would be free to get energy and I wouldn't be kind-of-arbitrarily paying the price my local utility charges,

-Acknowledging that this means I'm paying for the energy my house makes, semi-unrelated to the amount of energy I end up using,

-And recognizing that this would probably make my house uglier and harder to sell to a mainstream family, and not in fact save me money, just make me feel a little better about my footprint on the environment...

....am I missing something else, or does this look like it might be worth doing?

Comments

[quoting-mungo.livejournal.com]

We've got solar thingys on the roof of the house we rent out -- it basically heats up stuff (a lot. My dad was a moron and opened the pipes, and he got scalded really badly) that then heats up the houses. It's possible it also makes hot water for the tenants to use, I don't recall.

If I understood it correctly, this is a more effective use of solar energy, as the sun heats stuff up anyway, and thermal energy is difficult to use for much except heating.


-Alexandra