Its ideas like this that make me feel the winds of change.

Countdown to renewable energy hating, Al Gore bashing, wing-nut screeching.........3......2......1......

Wow. Can I make a tree with these things? With the TVA green power switch, I could tell people it's a money tree!!

awesome

renewable energy can work, it will just requirement a foundation shaking change in how we run societies.

@pevans34: what?

@djdare: I agree, WTF?

Awesome, now my solar farm can have GROW trees. They look relatively fragile, can they even handle rain?

They probably can get wet, "it will just requirement foundation shaking change in how we run societies."

Speaking of foundation shaking, can you imagine the vibration from 30,000 shingles blowing around on the roof? No thanks.

@pdok: On their website, the mock up looks like they put it on the side of a house. I would imagine it might sound like leaves on a tree? Then again, I live in a place with similar construction and can't hear the leaves outside because of really good window construction. If they were noisy, they could probably be applied to almost any industrial construction that isn't a home and yield the same results. Either way, the amount of sun, wind, water and geothermal energy humans could harness is almost limitless...and probably cheaper to develop than using wars and bad politics to secure our current resources.

Looks like bullshit to me. Unmaintainable. Think of thousands of little moving parts to keep lubricated and regulated.

I agree with pdok - we'd be better off figuring out how to dig a really deep well and tapping into some of that hot wet stuff. Ooooooo so good -- the energy I mean. We need to tap that.

@pdok: WhoTF said it needs to be on your roof. As johnnyabnormal [gizmodo.com] says with the construction shown on their site I doubt anyone inside would hear the panels outside of a stucco or cement building. Keep an open mind people that's what drives breakthroughs.

@AndrewJayPollack: "I agree with pdok - we'd be better off figuring out how to dig a really deep well and tapping into some of that hot wet stuff."

Uh, where did he say that?

@AndrewJayPollack: I'm quite positive that hot stuff is far from "wet." just because its liquid doesn't mean much... any moisture has long since been gone.

these solar-powering shingles are way hotter than any shit I could find at the Apple store.

wonder if the designers are single.

As someone who lives in a very windy desert, WANT.

That's not ugly at all...

@mferrari:
@djdare:
Me thinks Bable Fish just imploded......