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. 

Comments

[andygates.livejournal.com]

"the sort of changes a democracy can't handle"

Aye. And this is what depresses me. The closest I can think of in terms of a lifestyle-altering grass-roots change that has no immediate benefit to the people being asked to change is the Chinese "one child" policy. And that had to be imposed by a Communist centre.

Much of the world won't accept a statist imposition of rules, not yet (and by the time the evidence is great enough, the damage may be too great). A religion might do it: if emitting more carbon than you sequester becomes a new sin, with a reward in the afterlife for otherwise nurturing the Garden, and social opprobium for sinners, that might work. But I doubt it would take off.

[jonnycowbells.livejournal.com]

And Virgil led Dante from Limbo into the second circle, and as he did so there was laid wide a great plane populated of the middle classes, chasing supermarket plastic bags that they could never catch wafted on some unseen breeze.

"Behold those who recycled but never carbon-balanced their air travel."

I figure we're about 700 years too late.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

That's exactly why I'm embracing hedonism. If we're going to hell, we may as well get a tan.