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

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

kathrynt recently investigated the same folks, I think (there's a recent post in her journal) and found that while solar energy is a nifty idea, these people were not.

But I didn't come here to write you that depressing bit of news. I came here to thank you, and huggle you gratefully, for the gift you sent me. :)

*huggles*

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

oh, you're welcome! And that news isn't depressing at all, really. I put that there because I wanted to work on debunking it, actually. I'm right now paying my utility folks the "wind power surcharge", which is kind of a scam I'm willing to live with, but I've been thinking about other options, and someone threw that at me with a really high level of excitement, so I thought I'd throw it to people on my flist with more energy sense and less random stupid hippieness than I have myself.