I know there probably is a good reason, either the tech, financial trade offs, etc.
And I’m not a homeowner but I’ve been watching on the topic lately.
Wouldn’t serving as a roof have a significant offset to the true cost? Even at 50% off the roof?
It seems they do the opposite, build on the existing ones.
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I’m in the innovations industry and I have to say, I’ve seen a few instances of these solar shingles concepts. Much of it fail due to it having an oversimplified concept, not enough development, lack of interest, lack of funding, … The list goes on. Within companies that we see, they also don’t have enough proper handling on how much damage they can take, life span, energy production… Any of the hard numbers. Only one thing is sure and that is the production cost which can climb very high or very low but with very tiny gains in the long run.
Note that this is different from a solar roof which is installing panels on top.
Explain like I’m 5: lack of interest -> lack of funding -> high production costs and limited gains -> lack of interest
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