Tesla's Solar Roof Looks Great, Would Be Excellent For All Our Open-Source Benchmarking
For making for some fun Sunday discussions in the forums and being interested in the tech, I figured I'd mention the Tesla Solar Roof that was announced on Friday. The Tesla Solar Roof has solar tiles integrated into glass tiles serving as the roofing material. There are a few color/style varieties of the Tesla Solar Roof right now and they look quite nice, at least from the media images provided thus far.
Tesla claims the roofing will be affordable when factoring in the projected savings and the cost of a traditional roof. It's also believed the Tesla Roof can last 50+ years with the glass tiles while being 98% the efficiency of conventional solar panels.
Anyhow, if you haven't yet checked it out stop by tesla.com/solar.
I'm, of course, interested in it for energy savings and with having long been looking for a more affordable solar solution and with some design the wife would approve. I can't wait to hear more about it once Tesla Roof installations roll-out in the next year. Since I've been saving bit by bit for solar panels within a few years time and originally was going to go for a metal roof approach with solar panels on top, the Tesla solution could be a great fit... It certainly looks nice. It will hopefully be well worth it in the end with all our Linux benchmarking systems (60+ systems running tests daily) generally consuming around 3k kWh per month. So hopefully within a few years and when the Tesla Solar Roof becomes available for installation in Indiana, you'll be able to read my thoughts about it on Phoronix.
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