My own solar system: Installing solar panels at my house

saving energy is excellent. Don't be an energy pig like Al Gore.

I built my own Solar Panels for under $100, as well as a Solar Water Heater for under $10 that I am currently using to power my 1700 Square Foot home using the plans at:

ambigrid-review.blogspot(DOT)c om

especially the flickering light is reported to give a lot of people headaches, especially if it's the only light source in a room you regularly stay in(living, working room etc...).

The metallic mercury content makes the manufactoring and disposal processes ecologically questionable.

-they produce a very unfortunate kind of light to work and live in: a spectral distribution with only several peaks in it, in high contrast to sunlight or other thermal radiation light sources.
-even worse, this light flickers heavily to the mains frequency, which regular/halogen bulps don't do due to thermal decay delay
-they are much more susceptible to decreasing their expected life span if you switch them regularly then regular bulps.
-the are undimmable(you can't fractionally power them)

10:20 fluorascend bulbs, compact or in regular tube shape, aren't really eco-friendly:
-contain mercury in metallic, but at least in an amalgam form. so DON'T BREAK THEM! don't throw them in regular garbage can! they need special waste disposal techniques
-they produce more electromagnetic smog with pronounced higher harmonics than many cell phones and far more than most old TV/PC cathod raytubes

it is nice. But it cost more to install and repair, than just use the old system (nuc power) :)

I think nuclear can be made to be safe and clean given some efforts were spent to do so. Lets say oil vanished and Sun light was nearly gone, not the suns fault but our atmosphere fault. Scientist would get of that ass and make nuclear the norm.