http://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/18/solar-powered-guiltless-green-home-theater-system-makes-your-w/ Engadget HD Comments for Solar-powered 'guiltless green' home theater system makes your Wall-E Blu-ray very happy http://hd.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://hd.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/18/solar-powered-guiltless-green-home-theater-system-makes-your-w/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/18/solar-powered-guiltless-green-home-theater-system-makes-your-w/Apr 18th 2009 12:18PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/18/solar-powered-guiltless-green-home-theater-system-makes-your-w/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/18/solar-powered-guiltless-green-home-theater-system-makes-your-w/
I wish people would stop paying lip service to environmentalism and recognize it for the anti-human monstrous faith-based doctrine of self-destruction that it is. Anyone's guilt for producing enough wealth to exchange for a tasty home theater is certainly undeserved.

It's only the likes of Al Gore an his ilk who wish to rule humans through self-guilt.]]>Apr 18th 2009 1:33PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/18/solar-powered-guiltless-green-home-theater-system-makes-your-w/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/18/solar-powered-guiltless-green-home-theater-system-makes-your-w/Apr 18th 2009 3:02PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/18/solar-powered-guiltless-green-home-theater-system-makes-your-w/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/18/solar-powered-guiltless-green-home-theater-system-makes-your-w/Apr 18th 2009 3:13PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/18/solar-powered-guiltless-green-home-theater-system-makes-your-w/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/18/solar-powered-guiltless-green-home-theater-system-makes-your-w/
To completely circumvent the whole "environmentalism" aspect of this (because it will probably no doubt send you into a ranting rage about how environmentalism is just part of the dirty liberal fascist agenda), I see a great deal of value in this considering the cost of energy can ONLY go up (as if it hasn't already).

Individual energy independence is a good thing. The surplus in power these things will output also gives you a credit with the power company in which they pay YOU.

Get off the "environmentalism" bullshit rants. Jesus. ]]>Apr 18th 2009 3:38PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/18/solar-powered-guiltless-green-home-theater-system-makes-your-w/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/18/solar-powered-guiltless-green-home-theater-system-makes-your-w/
If this is about free energy, becoming more self-sufficient, and just the coolness factor of being able to do it, that's most excellent. This is a site about cool gadgets and technology. You're right, energy independence is a great goal, along with exploring alternate, reasonably priced, alternatives.

My "BS environmentalism rant" is not about any of those things. It's about a headline that contains "guiltless green" which implies that anyone who doesn't agree or is unable to match this level of financial commitment is wrong and an enemy of Mother Earth. Who has the agenda then?

Sorry if my "ranting rage" disturbed you. That wasn't my intention. To each his own, I just don't like to be dictated to by groups or individuals who seem so certain of what's best for me even if they often don't practice it themselves... ]]>Apr 18th 2009 4:03PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/18/solar-powered-guiltless-green-home-theater-system-makes-your-w/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/18/solar-powered-guiltless-green-home-theater-system-makes-your-w/
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I am guessing those panels are at least 30K to buy and install based a quick check of comparable panels on google. Even if you took that 30K and put it in a poor performing investment vehicle that pays 3%, you would never break even on this deal. To get your 30K, it would take around 16 years but by then you would have made $20K in your 3% investment vehicle. The only way I see something like this solar setup making any financial sense for a homeowner is if panels become much cheaper or if electricity becomes much more expensive. It may be green but it does not appear very financially sound.]]>Apr 18th 2009 5:25PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/18/solar-powered-guiltless-green-home-theater-system-makes-your-w/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/18/solar-powered-guiltless-green-home-theater-system-makes-your-w/
The larger threat to energy usage is simply trends. If you look at a chart of energy usage per person over the last 50 years has been steadily rising. On average, the number of people are using more energy and the populatoin is increasing. There is eventually going to be a finite limit to the sustainable energy we can produce during peak hours. Especially when summer hits and everyone starts to use their a/c fairly often.

Factor in the existence of electric cars such as the Chevy Volt, Tesla Roadster/Whitestar/etc, Toyota Prius and other cars, that too will be another demand for energy. As electric cars become more prevaliant, they probably will overtake gasoline cars due to the environmentally firendly factor, cheaper cost per milage, cheaper cost to produce/sell each year(as mass production scales up), concerns about availability of fossil fuel(long term and short-term price hykes. $4.00, $6.00? $8.00? a gallon anyone? at what point do consumers say SCREW THIS and switch to electric?)

So if the cost of electricty doubles or triples during peak hours and your selling electricty back, your investment will be paid back twice as fast or three time as fast. If there's a power outage like what happened in California during a few summers ago and Ontario simply because there was too much energy-demand, well, at least you'll have power at your household, be able to drive your electric car, wash your clothes and keep your frozen/regular food from going bad. All of these, may in turn save you money(no bad food) or make you money(having a working-car, while other's do not).]]>Apr 19th 2009 5:39PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/18/solar-powered-guiltless-green-home-theater-system-makes-your-w/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/18/solar-powered-guiltless-green-home-theater-system-makes-your-w/
Green issue or not, who doesn't like solar panels.

-Brian]]>Apr 19th 2009 2:42AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/18/solar-powered-guiltless-green-home-theater-system-makes-your-w/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/18/solar-powered-guiltless-green-home-theater-system-makes-your-w/
Particularly, I'm interested in the costs of the solar panels. 700watts/hour actually sounds like a pretty decent amount of energy considering that's only 4 panels. I think my roof probably has room for 10+ panels which would be kind of cool because they I might be able to get my entire electricity usage covered with the exception of when my washer/dryer is running. However, its all dependant upon the cost of a solar panel. There are current some discounts available from the Canadian goverment for going green and I wonder if it might make it more affordable to say put up one panel, per year over 10 years.

If one panel were say $2,000.00 and if through government programs you could manage to only pay say $1250.00 or $1500.00 that wouldn't seem so bad to me. I could probably budget that per year and work towards and energy-free home.]]>Apr 19th 2009 5:28PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/18/solar-powered-guiltless-green-home-theater-system-makes-your-w/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/04/18/solar-powered-guiltless-green-home-theater-system-makes-your-w/
Smug...]]>Apr 19th 2009 9:22PM