Election 2004: Thoughts and predictions

[Weltall]

It is not crap. It's very hard to sell a home with pre-installed solar panels on a roof, because they are very ugly. When you sell a home, you don't market it as a high-tech Star Trek home of the future in the middle of a normal neighborhood. Normal sells. Any real estate agent will tell you that it is easiest to sell a home that, in addition to being well-kept, maintained and clean, has neutral coloring on walls, carpet and siding, is designed with practicality in mind, and, for all intents and purposes, is pretty plain without looking utilitarian. People like a blank slate to sculpt. What you don't want is something visibly obtrusive and eyecatching. Like, solar paneling.

Then, of course, you have the resulting complications that arise if your home is shaded by trees.

I think the best answer to this is the best answer to many problems: Responsibility. Turn your shit off when you're not using it. If everyone did that, I'm willing to bet energy savings and consumption would tilt in a noticably more positive direction.