As a domestic claimant I do feel the RoI on this coin is incredibly small, I have a ~4kW array which in the UK is the max for a private person and I will get ~ 6 SLR per year, even if it goes to $20 per SLR, thats a pretty small carrot on the end of a stick that many people just dont understand right now. I was already experimenting with crypto so for me its not an issue.
You need to get solar installers to claim on behalf of their clients or to use it as support for the industry. Ill be talking to my installer about it, especially in the UK as FiT is being cut from .12 to .02 per kWh and they are gonna need all the help they can get.
I sound negative, Im really not but the barriers to entry are high.
Thanks for chiming in. There are some things underway to help with making SolarCoin grow, these will be posted to the site in the coming weeks. The SolarCoin Foundation is now a US Public Benefit Corporation.
There are conversations ongoing with Affiliates to build out websites and share technology in US, EU and Japan.
The EU team is applying for VC and working on Tech incubator applications.
We are on #slack and setting up a weekly standing call for marketing and outreach.
There is also some work being done for Simple 2-3 minute cartoon explanations of SolarCoin and Currency dynamics using powtoons by the foundation.
All of this will be updated and released in the coming weeks.
If you know of solar developers interested please let me know. I will introduce them to affiliate site builders. If you know of people who would like to set-up affiliate sites or sub-affiliates (sub license) tech under the hood from affiliates PM me and I will introduce you. There are many countries and territories wide open. Affiliates get a % of claimants as a referal payment from the foundation. Our focus is on developer and Claimant outreach.
This is going to be done with messaging, marketing and biz dev relationships via a country and regional affiliate/ sub affiliate network using web based wallets, direct inverter tie-ins to the blockchain and other tech. I am happy to put technologists, solar developers and others in touch.
Just FYI a $20 SLR on a 5KW roof over 25 years= 187.5 SLR= $3,750 so it is interesting at the margin. a 5KW system in the US would cost about $20k.
http://www.solar-nation.org/how-much-does-a-solar-system-cost-these-days As the cost of solar installs goes down that marginal incentive becomes more interesting. If one assumes each claimant produces $800 in value to the currency network
https://www.zapchain.com/a/93TL8NKGHF a $20/SLR price point assuming 100m circulating float requires 2.5m participants. A big number but not impossible in the context of global energy and a current 6m solar generators growing 20-30% annually.
