Sure they used a Photoshopped photo for their brochure, but they have a disclaimer to that fact printed in plain sight. They also have some actual photos of the tile being installed.

You seem to have it in for a vast majority of the thin-film PV roofing start-ups on your blog. Not sure what the reason for that is, but these companies have to start somewhere.

One of your long essays (actually lost interest after the first three paragraphs) concerning the quality of the product and how long it lasts is probably without merit. You use data from a website and made one big assumption — the lack of data just has to be the tiles are no longer producing energy. You did not do the due diligence of calling the schools where the data is coming from to confirm your hypothesis.

This is not to say that there are going to be a high failure rate with this new technology. I remember the early days of LCD displays in watches, control panels, etc. One little bump or smack on the display and the whole thing was worthless. Sometimes you could do this as soon as you walked out of the store with it. Eventually they improved, just as the tiles will improve.

I can see why you are not following through on a lot of your claims. Kind of hard to do that when you are sitting in a room somewhere in New Jersey. Meh, pick up a phone or email some of these guys and get some balance to your reporting.

http://ecdfan.blogspot.com/2009/06/marketing-of-solar-tile.html