Wired has an interesting story about the Citizenrē Corporation, an energy startup who has made a simple promise of "Solar for free". Instead of making you pop for $25,000 or more in panels, inverters and other gear, Citizenrē says it will loan you a complete rooftop solar power system, install it for free and sell you back the power it generates at a fixed rate below what your utility charges. Sustainable lifestyle advocate and solar maniac in his own right Ed Begley, Jr. (remember him?) has just shot an eight-minute video for the company's website, and more than 7,000 people from Maine to San Diego have already signed up for systems. Not surprisingly, this model has generated a few skeptics, mostly from the more traditional sell-and-install solar photovoltaic community, some of whom simply don't think they can pull it off. It's a pretty far-out idea, full of twists that include multilevel marketing schemes, theoretical payback periods and secret manufacturing facilities; if it works, it'll be brilliant. If not...well, it wouldn't be the first time, but, still, wouldn't you want cheap, clean, renewable power for life? Read the whole thing over at [Wired] and learn more at [Citizenrē]