Comments on: Generating electric via Solar?

By: mt_zion_crusader

mt_zion_crusader — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:10:35 +0000

Solar panes will blend well with your architecture if they are considered when the house is designed. If the broad side of the roof is on the south side at the proper angle they don’t look so obtrusive. When they are mounted on stilts at an odd angle to the roof they look silly.

By: CapnPeter

CapnPeter — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:10:35 +0000

After you installed them and find out what they are doing for you………….You’ll find them beautiful.
And NO the only way is with flat panels..

By: JOHNNIE B

JOHNNIE B — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:10:35 +0000

NO and it is not reliable.

By: grizzbr1

grizzbr1 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:10:35 +0000

There is a company in Michigan that makes photo voltaic roofing shingles. A team of chemical engineers at University of Toronto is looking into paint on solar cells, but it hasn’t been commercialized yet. The shingles are your best bet if you don’t like the look, but I don’t think they are nearly as efficient as monocrystalline solar cells.

By: Big R

Big R — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:10:35 +0000

You’ll need to spend a fortune. You’ll need to cover your house with panels just to run a water heater. Then you’ll have to maintain the system which costs. It’s a lot cheaper and a lot more practical to just pay for the energy. Solar energy doesn’t work. That’s why everyone and every place doesn’t convert.

By: Cali

Cali — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:10:35 +0000

If that’s the case, buy an XPower Energy Saver. We love ours!

It advertises to cut the electric bill by 25%; we’ve noticed closer to 50% savings.
6 month money back guarentee.
All I had to do was plug it in & turn it on.

By: Don K

Don K — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:10:35 +0000

You don’t have to use the boxed module type. You can get thin-film solar laminates or thin-film solar cell shingles that look just like roofing shingles. Well they are roofing shingles.

About the same cost as reglar solar modules, Cheaper then some and higher priced then others.

http://store.oynot.com/thin-flim-solar-cells.html

By: j p

j p — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:10:35 +0000

The idea of getting free electricity must be as old as electricity itself.

When I bought my house I thought about all this and looked at it from all angles, only to find out that the investment would be too high and didn’t even finish my calculations with the thought ending that one severe hailstorm could destroy these expensive solar panels and then what?

The cost for a system that generates enough electricity has been priced by experts for at least $20.000 to $40.000.

My electric bill fluctuates seasonally from 60 to slightly over 100 Dollars.

So I took $20.000 and placed it in a CD at my bank and the interest coming out of this pays for my electric bills from now on.

Sure, some may argue that they don’t have that kind of money. Well if this is the case, then why even think about solar electric panels if you cannot pay for them in the first place.