[Arkcon]

Originally posted by capnq:
One of the costs of solar power that isn't usually mentioned is pollution from manufacturing all those solar panels. Making photovoltaic cells is a pretty nasty process, from what I've heard.

I heard that some people in Japan are putting solar cells on top of their houses. They have to buy them, maintain them, and they have to pay the local electric company more than the going rate for this electricity, and sell their surplus electricity back at less than the electric company's going rate.

This is mind boggling. Why do this? Prestiege? To benefit the rest of the neighborhood? To just insure they personally are never affected by a rolling blackout?

And if the Last one is true, is that a good enough reason for parts of the US to do the same?

Oh no, a chink in my capitalist armor. Quick someone plug it with a wad of 20's.

[ January 29, 2003, 22:44: Message edited by: Arkcon ]