But, that success also comes at a price. Germany has the highest cost for electricity (per KwH) of any country in the world. So I guess if you want to sink a huge chunk of your GDP into centralized solar power, then great, but your citizens will pay for it. Dearly.
The success in Australia lies in the fact that it's individuals, not centralized power companies, that are driving the boom. That makes sense to me and will likely be the way the US goes once the cost per KwH starts to come down here in the states. Sinking 20-30K into stand alone solar is still out of reach for the majority of households here. Plus, with our energy costs being relatively low to begin with, the cost/benefit ratio gets stretched way out in recouping your investment dollars. -------- Original Message -------- > From: "Jerry Milo Johnson" <jmi...@gmail.com> > Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2014 1:28 PM > To: "cf-community" <cf-community@houseoffusion.com> > Subject: Re: Pretty awesome solar news > > Germany has had a huge success with their solar adoption. > > (and their sunlight and snowfall issues and angles are not ideal) > > > On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Cameron Childress <camer...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 3:39 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey wrote: > > > > > It's an expensive endeavor and does not translate in every region, let > > > alone every country. Not to the extent that they're talking about in the > > > article at least. > > > > > > The cool part to me is that in the life cycle of any product or technology > > there is a period where early adopters are willing to pay more for > > something. Then it gets more mainstream and a little cheaper and more > > people start to get in on it. Eventually it's mass produced and scale > > allows the costs and prices to plummet. Everyone can have it cheaply and > > easily. > > > > I am not sure where on that curve we are with solar but that article is > > fantastic evidence that we are moving forward on it somewhere. > > > > -Cameron > > > > ... > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:371310 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
