RE: Times have changed, 'green' sells products L3

[Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM]

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> Van: Ronn Blankenship
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> Verzonden: Sunday, July 15, 2001 7:12 PM
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> Onderwerp: Re: Times have changed, 'green' sells products L3

> Many of the same reasons apply to many others in both Europe and the 
> US, thus cutting down the potential benefits of solar power because a
> lot of people will be unable to install them because they live in 
> apartments.

But then, what is to stop them for getting together and ask the owner of the
building to install solar panels on the roof of the building? Could even be
relatively cheap because the installation costs can be shared by all the
households in the building. Installation costs for an entire apartment
building will be higher than for a single house, but lower than the total
costs for installing solar panels if all those households in the building
would live in single houses.


> And having to cough up $32,000 to put one on your home is going to
> force a lot of people to sell their home and move into an apartment.

I'll admit that it's a lot of money for many people, but I expect the costs
to go down in the next 5-10 years, and efficiency of solar panels will go
up. As with all technology, quality improves and prices drop after a while.
Don't believe it? Just look at what a personal computer cost 10 years ago
(and how little computer power it had), and compare it to the computing
power you can get today for significantly less money.

I predict that 10 years from now, the biggest part of the cost will be the
costs of installing the system, not the materials itself.


Jeroen

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