If you are not going to sell your solar product to individuals at a fair price as opposed to wholesale selling only to corporations, then you are irrelevant. People want energy independence - Freedom from the pollution grid and relief from elitist blood sucking. So do the right thing. Sell to us, not just to them.

I agree... these types of easy to install systems have to become available to consumers in off the shelf retail environments.

Residential consumers should only need an electrician to setup/install/upgrade their electrical panels and the required interconnects. After that residents should be able to mount and connect their panels as the video clearly shows in a very easy and straight-forward manner.

Hi Merkhava! You're absolutely right about the irrelevance of commercial-scale solar - just because it's the fastest-growing sector in the global renewable energy market and has the greatest chance of rapidly reducing pollution, why should businesses provide that service - especially if it doesn't suit your very specific needs?

I suspect that, given your expertise and ideas on how to solve this pressing issue, you could probably be a successful solar entrepreneur. There is plenty of opportunity to convince investors of the greatness of your ideas.

elitist blood sucking? Umm.... sorry I just had to repeat that.

Actually, we elitists prefer to drink blood - sucking is messy and somewhat uncivilized, though there are regions where it's still considered appropriate.

2.25KwH unit on a commercial building? Wow, that'll cut down pollution. Office lighting alone must run several factors higher than that. Whereas three of four of these on a residential building would make a difference, and word would spread fast. Assuming they're not taking the piss on pricing.

If I'd paid for that install I would have two comments for the guys who installed it:

1. Stop walking on my expensive solar cells.

2. Get your toolbox off my expensive solar cells.

These comments are for the most part extremely negative. At least recognize the positive here people: solar energy is becoming more and more viable! That's good news no matter how much you people want to stink it up.

I would like to thank M Lewis and T Roaster for including some delightful sarcasm in a much needed criticism of the "if you cant solve everything all at once with one single solution RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX on your first foray into the COMPLEX and expensive energy market, then please go screw a goat you capitalist overlord serving single-celled coward" dumb-ass-internet-troll-scape.

Can I stick one of these on my back to power my iPod?

yea works fine on my itouch, unlimited battery!

idiot.....

Renewable solar energy, especially this system, will over time become more accessible to consumers. But for now, I say let the corporations get it first. They are the ones who are using up most of the energy anyway. It's a trickle-down effect. Be patient my friends.

"I would like to thank M Lewis and T Roaster for including some delightful sarcasm in a much needed criticism of the "if you cant solve everything all at once with one single solution RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX on your first foray into the COMPLEX and expensive energy market, then please go screw a goat you capitalist overlord serving single-celled coward" dumb-ass-internet-troll-scape."

Haha... can I hire you to write insults? Good ones.

Certainly any step toward simple installation that doesn't involve poking holes in rooftops is welcome.

The problem with businesses dropping off the grid first is that it means higher, not lower, prices for households, as the power companies struggle to balance costs with declining incomes. So, I share the frustration of the first poster, in being effectively barred from being able to preemptively drop off the grid first.

That being said, it's like complaining about being charged a fee by a boat that's come to pull you out of the ocean and rescue you. I'll still take the rescue.