My mistake. I meant to say, "Thin Film Solar Cell technology is well on the way to being able to make 10 cents per kWatt energy which is cost competitive with today's coal fired energy." That's 10 cents per kilowatt pumping directly into your abode folks not 10 cents per Watt. Energy from the net grid costs about 6 cents per kWatt. They mark it up and charge about double or more (TXU = 13.9 cents per kW). If you had a Thin Film solar array on your roof you could make them more competitive such that you'd only pay for and build the max capacity for your average electric loads - not large enough to satisfy your peak summer loads which would make utilities actually loose money were your array larger.
Which is to say - if you have a thin film style solar cell system on your roof you could afford this energy for electricity into the future; while reducing your carbon footprint.
If you (and you and you, etc.) never do nothing to upgrade your electrical input but buy coal fired power - your children and grandchildren will eventually be forced to buy the new finagled environ-suites that are being shown on the net. They are the ones with plastic bubble head-hats that import forced air blown through a filter to reduce smog contamination from all the sulfur dioxide belching from the ten to 15 coal fired plants currently on the permit trail by TXU located about due down wind from DFW - near and around Waco. Animal food farmers will pass along the cost of raising your food in environ-shelters separated from direct contact with outside atmosphere, too. Food plants will be greenhouse raised or expensive pollution resistant strains will be harvested from outside fields and then processed to remove the acid from rain that will eventually be embedded in the plant sugars; some already are, but are not causing the health watch authorities to yell rape, yet.
All the above are a synopsis from various enviro, national & international health and other sources which I research on a regular basis. wr.
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