Free solar panels + installation?

[Syringer]

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72752-0.html

Instead of making you spring for $25,000 or more in gear, Citizenre says it will loan you a complete rooftop solar power system, install it for free and sell you back the power it generates at a fixed rate below what your utility charges. The company hopes to make back its investment with those monthly payments, augmented by federal tax credits and rebates.

Interesting idea, but probably too good to be true..

 

[2Xtreme21]

How reliable is solar power?

 

[axelfox]

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
How reliable is solar power?

Good until we try to block the sun from the robots.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
How reliable is solar power?

Well, it's all solid state, so very reliable, I'm guessing.

 

[Gilligansdingy]

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
How reliable is solar power?

Dude, the suns coming up again tommorrow.

 

[ElFenix]

what happens if you move?

 

[TXHokie]

I get baseball sized hail here once in a long while so solar panel on the roof is probably no go.

 

[Gilligansdingy]

Most newer setups can survive 1 inch sized hail.... but baseball size, not sure. I remember reading about a new roll out solar panel thats basically nailed down on top of existing shingles.

 

[Phokus]

Cool idea

 

[FoBoT]

It sounds great. But the naysayers are finding lots to say nay to. Much of the criticism is clinging to the company's multilevel marketing scheme. So far, more than 700 people have enlisted as independent Citizenre sales agents -- what the company calls "ecopenuers" -- or about one sales representative for every 10 customers, with significant overlap. Heading that sales army is 42-year-old Styler, a veteran of multilevel marketing and a colorful figure in his own right.

In 1997, Styler bailed out of Equinox, a notorious Southern California pyramid scheme, three years before the Federal Trade Commission shut it down. (He wrote a book about the experience). More recently, he's been involved in another multilevel marketing operation that sells skin patches promising the wearer improved health and vigor through the magic of nanotechnology.

i have a ground source heat pump, i don't think i have enough roof to power it

 

[Kelemvor]

Interesting idea but sounds strongly like s scam that will never come to fruition. ANd I don't like the par tthat says you pay for all the energy produced, even if you don't use it all. Do they get the extra to sell to someone else or do I pump it back to the electric company and get paid from them for it?

Hmm.

I'd do solar power in a second if it wasn't so freaking expensive but I'd need to wait until this company takes off to make sure it's for real.

 

[thehstrybean]

Originally posted by: Gilligansdingy

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
How reliable is solar power?

Dude, the suns coming up again tommorrow.

You hope...

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
How reliable is solar power?

The sun is very reliable. :thumbsup:

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: thehstrybean

Originally posted by: Gilligansdingy

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
How reliable is solar power?

Dude, the suns coming up again tommorrow.

You hope...

If it doesn't, being connected to the power grid isn't going to help you much...this planet will be a giant block of ice in a matter of days...weeks at most.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
How reliable is solar power?

The sun is very reliable. :thumbsup:

until it goes nova