Lightweight Solar Panels That Mimic Wall-Crawling Ivy

@ mad hatter

the point is to same the enviroment not your wallet. so if we have no planet then there is no point in saving money.

@ mad hatter

the point is to same the environment not your wallet. so if we have no planet then there is no point in saving money.

No shit. What a great value. Idiots.

Save the environment - WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT REALLY MEAN. I can take you to places on this planet belching sulfuric acid, others belching more carbon dioxide in 1 hour then man produces in a year. The politicians stressing SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT want to take the dollars from your wallet and don't give a damn about the environment. Wind, Solar and geothermal combined will NEVER provide the energy we need. The object of all this environmental crap is to make you feel bad so they can tax you more. If we put the amount of money into fusion research that we put into Yucca Mountain we would have unlimited free energy and could forget about these useless technologies that ALMOST do what we want ALMOST when we need it.

Yeah, that's absurd. And the next thing to consider would be how much of that array, if any, would actually survive 33 years of use, and what the environmental and energy cost of manufacturing is....

Green construction could easily shave 33% off the energy used by a home. Putting 40k of hardware onto an old building to make up the difference is just silly and not at all the environmentally-preferable option.

And, um, saving the environment? How does that work again? It's not as if distributed solar collection is the only clean-energy plan in existence.

Green is fine, but it doesn't have to mean rampant inefficiency. These things appear to be non starters
- The price is outrageous
- I doubt if there's been a study to show that they will last -- if they fail in a short period of time, then the manufacturing process will undo the green ness
- Most houses are 1 to 2 stories, and many have tree shaded yards
- What will the short winter day do to their 10KWhours

Eco friendly should have engineering requirements. Making something solar does not necessarily make it green

Well, there *are* requirements. Sticking these on an existing building without advanced insulation and such wouldn't qualify it as "green" anyway.

What everyone keeps forgetting is that it always cost more when you first start producing something. As you start making more of something it becomes cheaper to make after the R&D is paid off. After a few generations the price on these should go down to a couple dollars a leaf.

As to the people that don't believe about environmental impact studies, remember that the United States had some of the worst Acid Rain back in the 70's until we started removing sulfur from the smoke stacks and coke; and I don't even want to get started on what happens to the environment from digging for coal.

The are many existing solar products that could produce more energy for less cost. This product is stupid, a gimmick for people who wants to cover their house in "leaves".