Solar energy has the power to disarm you with its apparent simplicity, which is perhaps the reason why there has been such a spurt in excitement surrounding this still nascent sector over the last few years. For a nation whose energy woes are likely to multiply exponentially in the not too distant future, it represents that one glimmer of hope, the Holy Grail as it were, of actually being able to fight off the tyranny of perennial oil dependency, and break free of both the economic and political shackles that this dependency has imposed upon this country for far too long.
