IF we have good solar panels and they can operate an entire house on them them why have we not installed them?

Question

COULD it be the cost to get set up to mass produce them is a few billion .JUST a few billion would shift america in ten years to solar energy to support all our homes in the suburbs except seattle .

self reliance my asses when republians can give billion dollar tax creditsa to oil companies .what gives people .

Answer 1

Take a look at this website:

http://www.enviromission.com.au/project/technology.htm

This is what a 50kw footprint for a solar plant looks like.....now this is a hot air plant, but the area needed for 50kw is about right.

Solar Power is cost prohibative...it takes too long to get your money back, plus solar cells are not clean as they use heavy metals and chemicals like arsenic that can leak out of them when they get old...plus the batteries...which are the achilles heal of solar power....battery technology isn't very good and they have been researching this for years.

Answer 2

This country is not really concerned about saving energy, if so, they would make it to whereas the consumer could afford them...its b.s PLUS the FACT if a LOT of people installed solar, the electric companies cannot accept all that would be loaded on the "grid"...do a search on what is happening in Hawaii right now. People installed solar, they cannot use them, the grid cannot handle the overload, they end up paying for the panels but cannot use them....please do a search before buying.

Answer 3

I think thats a good question, BUT, aside from the really high cost of producing and installing them, there is the problem of the batteries you need to store the energy. As far as I've heard, and this is all hearsay, batteries are nasty little buggers once they're spent, and if you can imagine an entire society using the massive storage batteries that would be required disposing of these things, where would we be in 50 years? Probably not on this planet. It would be even a worse toxic dump.
Keep your eyes open for new technologies that extend the life or improve on batteries in some crucial way. Fortunately we have a society that is highly addicted to gadgets like cell phones and laptops that are driving research in this direction further and further, but as of now, as far as the grapevine is concerned, we're not quite ready.
peace

Answer 4

Do you know how many batteries or what size batteries are needed to run a house? The panels only collect sunlight and convert it into energy. The energy has to be stored in batteries which have a shelf life. What's your plan to deal with millions of battery packs that have to be discarded? Landfills, Oceans, Space? Solar energy needs to be utilized but it has inherit problems also.

Answer 5

Solar energy is still too expensive (even when mass produced) than oil (and other alternatives). That's why no country in the world is primarily powered by solar.

Answer 6

What tax credits have the oil companies gotten??? These "tax cuts" are an urban myth.

Furthermore we are too busy buying nessesities like 50 in flat screens, X-boxes and I pods to be able to afford these luxery items like solar panels and thick insulation and hybrid cars. LOL

Answer 7

solar panels can not operate heavy amperage items, such as your refrigerator, air condition, etc. You would have to have a room full of batteries stacked to the ceiling to be able to run your entire house.

Answer 8

My brother-in-law had some set up on his 'farm'. It took 6 months and more than $40,000. Multiply that by 100,000,000 householdes in the USA and it would cost $4,000,000,000,000 or $4 TRILLION dollars.

Thank you for your support.

Answer 9

The IRS will reduce your tax burden by the amount you spend to install energy saving devices.

Answer 10

It costs. The average American can't afford to change the power source that they rely on. Over half of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.