There's a company called Solar City and what they do is install panels on your house and then sell the electricity back to you at a lower rate than what you pay your utility.
These are the sort of innovative things that are happening. On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Blaze Spinnaker <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Maybe, but the present amount of capacity has doubled 4 times over the >> last 10 years. >> > > Sure. It has great potential. > > I would be wary of projecting that kind of growth into the future, because > there may be problems integrating it into the net. Could there be problems > finding prime locations? I don't know. Some problem might crop up. Then > again, it might get cheaper faster than we expect. > > I wasn't seriously suggesting it would take 1,700 years. I said that to > illustrate the size of the market and the fact that solar now produces much > less than 1% of our electricity. > > - Jed > >
