Comments on: Seven Sustainability Predictions for 2007

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:48:15 +0000

Thanks for stopping by, you’re right, PV cells are getting cheaper and more efficient, but currently consumers have no reason to change. Electricity is cheap and generally reliable – hence no impetus to change.

By: tigerfish

tigerfish — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 00:47:36 +0000

They have to make production of PV cells cheap, and the efficiency of the cells must improve. It’s about resistance to change from the consumers.

First time participating in Problogger project.
May the Force be with you, the Blo-gedi way

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 00:34:51 +0000

TThere is lots of investing in solar technology going on, just not enough incentive. Coal is still cheap and plentiful, it won’t get replaced without serious carbon taxes in place.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 00:29:14 +0000

Home owner associations are a crock when it comes to innovation. Subdivisions where everything looks the same are nice to look at but often are run by narrow-minded people.

Thanks for your comment, nice blog too.

By: Jennifer Lynn

Jennifer Lynn — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:27:53 +0000

Thanks for offering tidbits on energy conservation. Its so true – every bit helps. We each can contribute to nurturing the environment more by being mindful of the seemingly ’small’ things.

By: Mamaduck

Mamaduck — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:06:12 +0000

I'd love to see this happen, like others said there are roadblocks that would need to be dealt with first, however. We also participated in this project, stop on by if you get a chance!

By: George

George — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 18:05:40 +0000

I would love it if solar power were used more widely. I think there are problems with using it. For instance, some home owners associations won’t let you put the panels on your roof. We looked into in our subdivision and we found out we could only put them on the back of our house, and I believe that they still had to be approved so as not to be an eye sore.

Nice blog, my wife and here friend have a couple of related blogs.

You can see my entry to the project here.

All the best, and I hope your predictions come true. It would make for a better world.

By: Ashish Mohta

Ashish Mohta — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:43:28 +0000

Its time for humans to stop using coal.Its seriously killing and SOlar power doesnt work anywhere unless they invets massively.They should give a thought about how to implement it.

Good predictions

I also got entry in darrens project.
http://technospot.net/blogs/index.php/2006/12/19/predicting-the-evolution-of-techspot-insideout/

And i am feeding your blog.There wont be another chance to meet so many bloggers

By: JamesC

JamesC — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:30:08 +0000

I think Mike said “Solar Power will reach the masses”. Nothing about Alaska in that statement!
Great list Mike, maybe you could get involved with a University for a sustainable civil course?

By: Brandon Wood

Brandon Wood — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:08:43 +0000

Some interesting predictions Mike. I would like to see solar power reach the masses, so hopefully you are right-on with that one. Unfortunately, for me living in Alaska, I don’t know how realistic of an alternative it is.