Quote Originally Posted by tmleadr03 View Post
If you do that you will never enter the market.

By the end of next year I am sure we will have 1TB SD cards for what we pay for 16GB now at the rate they are going. So now isn't the time either by your definition.
Maybe I'm just not being clear. I think there WILL be an appropriate time to enter the market, but that time has not yet come.

With my example above, I recently bought several 64GB class 10 SD cards because the technology has advanced enough and the price has come down enough for it to make sense for me to purchase them. Maybe in a few years solar technology will be at that "sweet spot" where technology has advanced enough to meet my needs, while the price is low enough to meet my needs. Of course that purchase point is different for each individual and depends greatly on what their goals and expectations are. My goals and expectations were to be able to use the SD cards as ultra portable hard drives, and even though we've had 64GB flash memory devices for a few years now, the price point was too high for me to justify their purchase until recently.

Same thing applies to solar. If your goal is to offset some of the cost of your electric bill, then from what I've read above, there are some reasonable options for doing that and they are available now. If your goal is to completely power your own home for less than $15,000 I don't think there is any point on the technology vs price curve that will meet your goal at this time, but as technology changes and prices drop, sometime in the future (near future) it will be possible to meet your goal.