[quote=jeeman]Well, I got a quote from Performance Solar to install 10 Sunstar panels including the computerized valve for $6970. Does this sound reasonable to all you folks?[/quote]

WOW

How much natural gas can you buy with $7 grand?

How much electricity is going to be used pumping the water up to your rooftop?

How long will the things last?

Plus they’re ugly as stink.

Side note, why don’t they make those damn things any other color than black? You could make, say, a terra cotta colored panel, and it would have a good percentage the absorbance of black. This is what happens when engineers make things like solar collectors. “Let’s make it black, because that absorbs the most light, 90% versus merely 80%!”

In solar panels, you can have any color you want, as long as it’s black.