PV Gap

Kirk Said:

solar panels on housing developments?

We Answered:

Solar Panels in housing developments is not being used because it would add $25,000 to $40,000 to the price of the home. Most people in the USA don't understand that after a few years the solar electric panels will start paying them back.

It is not just the upfront cost. People would rather spend that 40K on somthing smart like a new corvette. Which has no pay back at all then something stupid like solar electric and helping themselfs or the rest of the world.

So if the builders were to add them to the house people would just buy from another builder and the one adding the solar roof tops would just go broke. The State would have to find a way to credit the buyer or buider enough to make it worth it.

Is it not more fun to spend millions on finding out where Anna Smith is going to be barried? Or maybe billions on top of billions on War?

If we had spend the money on solar that we have spend on Iraq alone we could have put solar on every roof top in the whole USA and had few billion left over.

Think about it.. 200 million people in the USA with three to a home would be 66 million homes. It would have only cost 528 billions dollars to put a 1 kWh Solar Electric system on each house in America.

But that would be stupid. War makes more money. We don't want Exxon to go broke do we?