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Just waiting for it to be economical in the nearer term and all of this stuff will magically start appearing. Everyone goes through the motions of thinking about solar solutions to energy, and then they realize how little power they provide and how many they need en masse and then scrap the idea.

Once the math adds up for a quicker ROI, the plans will stop getting shelved and will be presented as novel by different people.



I think we're already there for regular PV. It's getting to the point where a home system will almost pay for itself in less than 10 years.


I'm thinking 3 months would be ideal


Very few things have a return that quickly. In an era of 25 year mortgages, a 10 year payback is very reasonable.


Let's make these one of the few things that have a return that quickly.


That’s unlikely to ever happen; if it’s that cheap to produce electricity the utilities will have long since switched over and cut rates.


Ideal, I guess. Though I don't see how that could ever be possible.




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