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Solar is a nitch technology good for powering calculators, watches and phone charges and not much else.

But but but but.....my liberal friend who just dumped a bunch of money into solar panels on his roof tells me that if everyone did what he did it would revolutionize the energy industry...lol. Stick it to "the man" (oil/gas man that is).

Of course I had to guide him through the whole "length of payback" conversation and I really flustered him when I told him that his idea wasn't really "fair" to the lower class/poor people because they cannot afford what he has. I also told him to forget about the whole subsidy thing (which helped him afford his system) because his "hero country" Germany is giving up on the whole solar subsidy thing because it is tanking their economy and we just cannot afford to do that at this point. I piled it on when I said "I feel really sorry for all those poor people that cannot have what you have" and that really flummoxed him.

I finally told him that it was fine if he and others wanted to do that as a hobby and he wanted to be the "solar preacher" on facebook but it is nothing more than a small drop in the big pond of the energy picture and it is no where near scalable.