Solar won't make major headway without govmint help to the actual consumer. For a very small amount of solar you could provide pretty much all of your lighting, some help with cooling, charge up your phones and computers, you can already get a very big bang for teh buck it you do the work yourself. "If" teh govmint stepped in and said that they would give you $5000 in solar tax credits (not write off, credits) then solar woul dtake off. it would reduce out energy dependence, lots of good would come out of it. In the end it will "likely" just have to get cheap enough to do it on your own. It's definitely heading that way. No solar boom without govmint help to the sheeple...not clowns and corporate dick heads like Elon. The chances of getting a govmint subsidy like that are slim and none I would say. The windup? >>> Wait for solar components to get even cheaper.