Are we on the cusp of a solar energy boom?

[MrMickeysMom]

2. After my sister and her husband put a system in...

... (2 years ago) which consists of solar panels for photovoltaic energy, and a solar water heater system and a solar pool water heater, their bill this month was $50.00. This is a house of 1,700 sq ft. They felt that even though in their lifetime they wouldn't recoup the full cost of putting it in (they are 65 and 66 years old), the savings they create would sustain to future owners. They did it mostly because it would reduce their footprint in the scheme of things.

Living in FL and installing solar panels in private homes as well as on the flat roofs of schools and municipal bldgs all over the "sunshine state" seemed to them a "NO BRAINER. Instead of taking the $3 odd dollars every month contained in electric bill for the construction of future nuclear power plants in the planning over several years, it seems much smarter to them that money both accumulated and monthly income put toward the development of solar panels create daily renewal energy.

Instead of the funding and risk for nuclear power plants, what better jobs would there be than to create solar panels all over the country?