Why is it mind-boggling to think of windows that generate electricity? What would be mind-boggling is if one of these days a solar "breakthrough" was announced that I would actually want to buy for my house.

This is a scientific site, you can find here bleeding-hedge researchs and experimental technologies. If you want to read about something you can buy now, you are in the wrong place. Try with your local mart catalog.

"If we can change the concept that energy has to come from one source, which is the power company"
Great idea, not sure if the power companies and big oil would be too keen on this, it's just not capitalism!