and another cool story: http://richarddawkins.net/2014/07/clean-energy-home-ends-12-month-trial-with-surplus/
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > All true. But every lurching success brings us closer to the day it is > cheaper and easier. > > > > On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Jeff Garza <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > But, that success also comes at a price. Germany has the highest cost > for > > electricity (per KwH) of any country in the world. So I guess if you > want > > to sink a huge chunk of your GDP into centralized solar power, then > great, > > but your citizens will pay for it. Dearly. > > > > The success in Australia lies in the fact that it's individuals, not > > centralized power companies, that are driving the boom. That makes sense > > to me and will likely be the way the US goes once the cost per KwH starts > > to come down here in the states. Sinking 20-30K into stand alone solar > is > > still out of reach for the majority of households here. Plus, with our > > energy costs being relatively low to begin with, the cost/benefit ratio > > gets stretched way out in recouping your investment dollars. > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > > > From: "Jerry Milo Johnson" <[email protected]> > > > Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2014 1:28 PM > > > To: "cf-community" <[email protected]> > > > Subject: Re: Pretty awesome solar news > > > > > > Germany has had a huge success with their solar adoption. > > > > > > (and their sunlight and snowfall issues and angles are not ideal) > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 3:39 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey wrote: > > > > > > > > > It's an expensive endeavor and does not translate in every region, > > let > > > > > alone every country. Not to the extent that they're talking about > in > > the > > > > > article at least. > > > > > > > > > > > > The cool part to me is that in the life cycle of any product or > > technology > > > > there is a period where early adopters are willing to pay more for > > > > something. Then it gets more mainstream and a little cheaper and more > > > > people start to get in on it. Eventually it's mass produced and scale > > > > allows the costs and prices to plummet. Everyone can have it cheaply > > and > > > > easily. > > > > > > > > I am not sure where on that curve we are with solar but that article > > is > > > > fantastic evidence that we are moving forward on it somewhere. > > > > > > > > -Cameron > > > > > > > > ... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:371553 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
