Solar roof tiles

[andygates]

Here's just the sort of home-generation idea that we need: solar roof tiles from SRS Energy.  They are supplied just like ordinary pantiles, and they are installed by roofers, just like ordinary pantiles - not by some expensive tech guy.  Details are a bit thin but they look just awesome to me.

This is the kind of thing which will make the passive home - a building that just consumes energy - an anachronism fairly soon. 

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[andygates.livejournal.com]

He's talking about hot fusion - which works, but not well enough for reliable power generation yet. Problem is, that "yet" has been around for at least twenty years - it's a problem which requires a lot of hard science and massive engineering to overcome, and without a Manhattan Project-scale effort, development is naturally slow.

*Purely* in terms of climate change, nuclear would be great. If there was enough of it, which is disputed.