Solar Power
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- mbr0
Nice idea, but it adds a lot. People are inherently cheap bastards and don't care much for anything but themselves, so we have little need for energy conservation and drive fat SUVs 50+ miles to work everyday. Mostly speaking about Americans, of course.
However, if you can convince people that it will save them money, then you have a winner.
Generally speaking, it'll take at least 7 years to break even on energy costs with solar. For flippers, that's just not worth it (and again, most people are cheap and short sighted, so not many panels anywhere).
It's changing, though, costs are coming down. I just worked on a condo project that uses solar for 30% of their energy and the prices are coming in at market rate for the units.
If you know you'll be somewhere for more than 7 years (and no one ever thinks they will be), then you should really consider it. There are superb tax incentives, too.