Here is why I think time is very near for this explosion to happen.

1. There is a bill in state legislature in California now that will spend $billions on rebates for solar energy. The governor wants to show that he is in front of this movement and wants to be aggressive. Some don’t like way bill is written, but there is a good chance it will pass. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-solar27jun27,1,3932108.story?coll=la-headlines-business

2. The panels are becoming more and more efficient at producing more energy.

3. The price may go down dramatically if contracts with China to produce panels are put into place. Normally I don’t like our jobs going oversees to people who only get fractions of what US worker makes but in this instance it will also create many jobs here to install panels, sell them, warehouse them etc... Plus this is something country needs I feel. Clean, renewable energy that makes us less reliable on foreign oil and gases.

Also, some companies are producing these new generation flexible solar energy panels that come in sheets and can be rolled up and then out onto surfaces. These may bring cost way down and make instalation much more easy and cost efficiant. Here is an article about this new product: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/07/11/BUG7IDL1AF1.DTL

At what point will these three variables merge?

I predict in next two to three years this industry will take off like so many of us were hoping it would many years ago.

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In primitive societies, rain makers usually have an inbuilt "get out" clause. The rain making ceremony consists of certain things done by rain maker, supported by other rituals, requirements, or prohibitions required of community rain maker is serving.

These may be bans on certain foods or practices, but if rain doesn't come, who is to say that someone in community failed to play their part, destroying rain maker's good efforts?

And eventually, with persistence, rain will come.

So, in a very general way, that's how rain maker works.

But let's see what he or she is up against.

Weather is local end result of effects of vast atmospheric circulation system, which works towards creating some sort of balance between unequal heating of earths surface, planet's rotation, transferring water from oceans to atmosphere and back again, variable distribution of warm and cold water currents in oceans, and much, much more.

All this takes a huge amount of energy. Let's put it in perspective. In 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Japanese city of Hiroshima, effectively destroying it. That bomb was equivalent of 12,500 tons of TNT, or 12.5 kilotons. An average thunderstorm generates equivalent of 20 kilotons.

A hurricane generates equivalent of a 10 megaton bomb - 10 million tons of TNT - every 20 minutes. Some people have asked why large bombs aren't used to divert or destroy hurricanes. Others have suggested that would be about as effective as throwing a ping-pong ball at a charging elephant.

To create rain out of nothing, a rain maker would need to control huge amounts of energy to overcome inertia of stable weather systems associated with droughts. With that sort of power, why hasn't rain maker taken over world, hopefully for good of all, or at very least made his fortune by affecting results of horse races?