Bright Future for Solar Energy?

[MadImmortalMan]

Little boxes
In the skyline
Little boxes
Filled with ticky tacky





Anyway, it's not inconceivable to imagine power generators for large buildings shared by the residents therein, since most skyscrapers have them now for backup. If it were efficient enough it could be the primary.

[Admiral Yi]

But a highrise concrete box is going to have less surface area per resident than a deluxe 3 bedroom ranch in the burbs.

[CountDeMoney]

The Third World smells funny.  Must be all that wet laundry.

[MadImmortalMan]

Yes. The generators in use in buildings now are diesel or (usually)natgas. It would have to be something other than that I would think.

Maybe the economics of it would help us get away from packing ourselves in like rats too.

[jimmy olsen]

I do think it's true that in the long run, most power will be generated at the point of use and old-school utilities will mostly go away.

I just don't see it happening.

Most places in the World are not Hong Kong

Also, there was just a victory for distributed roof top power in Iowa.

http://cleantechnica.com/2014/07/12/huge-victory-for-distributed-rooftop-solar/

And work continues on see through solar panels

http://cleantechnica.com/2014/03/27/see-through-solar-windows-go-big/

[alfred russel]

I do think it's true that in the long run, most power will be generated at the point of use and old-school utilities will mostly go away.

I just don't see it happening.

Most places in the World are not Hong Kong

Notably, every place except for Hong Kong.

[Admiral Yi]

Hong Kong is probably a good median representation of where people live.

[Razgovory]

Hong Kong is probably a good median representation of where people live.

Hong Kong is a probably a good representation of where bad people go when they die.

[Jacob]

Hong Kong is a probably a good representation of where bad people go when they die.

Sounds good to me.