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?

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power... POWER!

[ben-mouse.livejournal.com]

The mouse is off the grid! At least as far as keeping all his mobile devices charged is concerned. However, during the summer, My little 60-watt panel generates enough power to trim the lawn and hedges once a week, as well!

http://wildwolves.homeip.net/RicksSolar/html/index.htm

Re: power... POWER!

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

That's cool. Not sure it would make much of a dent in my energy usage, but it'd probably let me learn a little bit about arranging this sort of thing and maybe be a fun project to work on with the little guy. thanks for sharing!