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Originally Posted by mikesinner
Soon if you cover just the roof of your house you will power everything and have a little left over to put in your electric car.
Panels over the garage will then take care of the car and you'll have some left over energy. I believe this will happen in about 10 years.
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That technology has existed here in the U.S. for decades. Not 10 years in the future.
Just google up "Complete Home Solar Systems"
We aren't "behind" anybody. NASA was making kick ass solar panels for our lunar modules in the 1960's.
My point was that it's so expensive to put them on your house that hardly anyone does. It would literally take you decades to break even on the investment in money you would save on your power bill.
And also...I asked WHY didn't Bush or Obama take those respective ONE TRILLION DOLLAR BAILOUTS EACH and instead of funneling money to banks and all the companies that are owned by their campaign contributors, why didn't they simply have every home and business outfitted with complete solar systems for every building in the U.S.?
If global warming is being caused by mankind that sure would have seemed like it would have been job number one. And it would have stimulated the economy, made Green Energy Companies viable (giant govt. contracts to install millions of buildings with solar panels), ended the recession, and the stock market would have soared and the banks would have been solvent because the housing market would have rebounded from all the people getting jobs with solar.
That is my point.
The govt. isn't taking it very seriously at all.
They make a few speeches. That's it. And nothing changes.