What are the major benefits of solar energy? Is it cost effective?
Is it practical? It is absolutely practical and cost effective. I’m a capitalist, and whenever I give speeches or give talks to anybody, even when I’m talking to people that belong in a Sierra Club, I tell them, “I’m a capitalist, I just happen to be saving the earth.” The important thing is that it really is helping the environment. It’s clean. It literally is free after you buy the equipment. It just produces electricity. It works very well. I wouldn’t have spent so many years installing it myself, checking for glitches, or finding any shortfalls if it didn’t. The issues that were outstanding were so minor it made it a no-brainer to invest literally everything I owned into making sure it was launched. The efficiencies, with the government assistance and tax breaks of local utilities-and of course, backed up by the cost of electricity-makes it a viable product and more than worthwhile to install. So from an environmental impact, it’s a no-brainer. If you’re a company, from a marketing
