Another Massive GREEN Failure...New York Replacing Hybrid City Busses Engines with Diesels.

Bob wrote:Interesting stuff,  Z.

Dow reports that a typical residential cluster of 350 solar singles on a roof could slash one’s household electric bill by 40-60 percent. Such an installation can cost a homeowner over $20,000, but federal, state and local incentives can bring the cost to half that in some areas. Powerhouse shingles are currently available (from Dow-authorized contractors) in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Texas and Washington, D.C.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=im-getting-my-roof-redone-and-heard-about-solar-shingles

If the "incentives" bring that down to ten grand,  that starts to sound like a pretty good alternative to re-roofing with plain asphalt shingles.

That makes me think that someday a roof covered in asphalt shingles will be obsolete.

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:

I think we will see these kinds of roofs offered for single family homes; especially newly constructed homes, in our life time. And PowerHouse shingles do not yet incorporate Absolute Black technology, which will make them even more efficient. Throw in spray-on solar for your windows, and you are talking about generating a lot of electricity from your property. Of course, during the evening hours, you will need to draw from the grid, but during daylight, what you don't use will go out to the grid, and while that is happening, your electric meter is running backwards. And grid level storage is being worked on, for all of the excess solar electricity we will be generating during daylight. This is coming, for sure.

PkrBum wrote:Lol... science denying. If you knew anything about science you would know that breakthroughs come by disproving accepted theories... science evolved constantly. Any denying that is taking place is by those that refuse to question current theories or observations. There is no such thing as settled science... no matter how much money you want forced into it or social engineering you may desire.

Bob wrote:...You and teo just piss me off...

Bob wrote:There's one thing for certain,  markle, and it's something that completely escapes you and that motorhead you linked.  No coal plant will ever dump a million tons of liquid coal into the Gulf of Mexico which fucks up the marine life and washes onto our beaches.  Just like no coal plant will ever do what the exxon valdez did either.  Or what the next one is gonna do.

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:It doesn't matter how Solyndra failed. It will not stop the large-scale adoption of renewable electricity from solar in the coming years. Look, FEDEX, Walmart, Costco, IKEA, the Timberlands, and many other companies with real estate are putting solar arrays on their roofs. They are not going "green" to help Mother Earth; rather, the only "green" they know is Moolah! They are doing this for their bottom-lines only. And, they are using older technology solar arrays, not the disruptive solar technologies that will break out over the next few years.

Walmart solar array:



FEDEX solar array:



Costco Solar Array:



IKEA solar array:



My future solar array (Dow PowerHouse Solar Shingles):