We have Solar Cells on the roof of our house!Whats about you?

Good discussion - thank you, aaidjs. Very interesting and that was great stuff to have as it really cut cost for electricity bill. But in my country it is under testing for commercial use and to reduce the selling price as well. Not many can afford to have that huge solar cell. That is why that material still finding the solution for reducing production cost.

That is so great! aaidjs! I want to know a little more about that. How about the maintenance cost? do you need to work with the weekly/monthly clean up or something like that? It is cool!

Good evening, aaidjs. I am very glad that you have made a very satisfactory investment that helps save a lot of money. It is really a very good and environmently-friendly idea to use solar cells. Well after I bought my new apartment five years ago, my wife and I used to think about installing a solar cell on the roof, but as we didn't want to get our walls to be damaged by having to let the tubes come into the house, we gave up finally. Now more and more people are using solar cells, but we have already spent so much for the electric heater and gas heater in two bathrooms. If we have to renew it, then we are wasting our money spent on it as they are stil in very good condition and in good use. I think that we will still them for a few more years before we renew them by installing solar cells on the roof. Thanks for the information and discussion very much.

That is wonderful. If I built a house it would be a combination of rammed earth and straw bale with solar panels on the roof and a stream running through the middle with fish. But back to reality, we live in a condo. It is a really nice building, though, with gorgeous blue tile roofs and these insulate beautifully. When we are gone all summer, we come back here and it can be 110F (43C) degrees outside and when we first go in it will be around 80F (27C?)even though we are not in an area where it cools down at night. Of course when we start going in and out, then we need the air conditioning, as the hot air outside rushed right in. That is a good savings! It sounds like you will very soon break even on your investment, and then, you see, you are also not dependent upon others.

we have them in macedonia not in Australia. We gad 4 panels 2 on each side of the roof. And we had hot water from about april till november then it was not warm enough so we used the water from the heater (the heating sistem - parno). So we never ever used electricity to heat water well ok maybe if it was raining during summer for few days and the water could not warm up.

wow, that's cool. I have a question, solar energy is a energy coming from the sun right? What if there is no Sun the whole day, does it still gets energy from the sun?

wow! that's cool, here in our country, i dont have seen yet such kind of power generating or machine, its good, but expensive i guess..

I would love to install solar panels on my home. The cost is a lot and we are moving soon. I think we will instal panels on our next home if we feel like it is some where we will be staying longer.

Wow you do save a lot! Unfortunately I'm renting at the moment so I won't be able to get solar cells. I'm planning after I buy a house to get them though! I've a lot of great things about them!

Great!!! Solar cells are the future. We can have warm water and electricity with no impact on the earth. I like solar cells, I don't have them yet but I'm planning to buy them.

I think you do it very well in this aspect. It can save energy and also money. Although it seems you have to invest a lot for it at first. Unfortunately we don't have solar cells here. It is not popular at all. I don't know why because I think if more families use it, then it can save a lot of energy.

Our daughter had one on her house before... it was just used to pre-heat the water before it went to the water heater, but it saved them a lot of money! There isn't sun here very often, but there are many homes with solar cells on them in our area. Even a little help is good when it comes to electricity bills!

Yes i think that solar energy is our future.More houses should have more of that energy.As for me i do not have solar cells but in the near by future this is a solution.Good for you for saving the environment ;)

I would rather get a passive solar collector for my house instead of solar cells. Not only are solar cells so costly that you most likely will not get back the money you invested before the cannot be used anymore, but it also takes more energy to produce solar cells right now than the energy you will likely get out of them. Passive collecters are cheap and will provide plenty of hot water.

We have given a thought to this alternative source of energy as this is clean and has a very low maintance cost but never ended up doing so because of the initial cost of installation. Your discussion has been quite reassuring on this issue and i would give this a second thought now and see if we can go for this source of energy. The govt too is offering some sops for promoting this source here in india.