[Bloody Sam Roberts]

It really won't make a bit of difference unless those that have patent on the technology tell Mobil Corp. to go pound sand when they attempt to buy up the new technology....the same way they did with the currently existing PV technology.

If you want to build a solar panel, the materials you need are available only from companies who, in the end, pay Mobil Oil Corp. to get them.

[mississippi red-neck]

You have hit on the reason we havn't had energy independent homes or an energy independent country. We should have had solar homes fifty years ago.

It's not Arab's we need to be free from but the power of the big oil companies and their monopoly of the energy market.

Do you not think that a country when challenged in the early sixties to go from struggling to put a grapefruit sized object in orbit around the planet to men on the moon in seven years could not developed solar energy which was showing great promise back then into a viable cheap inexhaustible form of energy by now?

We won't have any source of plentiful renewable energy until something is done about them and the strangle hold they have on our elected officials and the world's energy market since the early 20 century, unless it is a new source controlled by them.