This post just made me realize how doomed this project is. You are going to go explain this door to door? Wow dedicated but misguided. I just realized something too while trying to figure out a way to make this coin work again, what I realized is that BitCoin will always be worth something since it takes power/electricity to create it along with the costs of ASIC Miners. Whatever the costs are and were, makes the floor, whatever it is worth as profit or speculative is the motive. Something that took nothing to create just to make a better BitCoin model will never be adopted, since no one will be driven to buy Solar just to create a coin. Even if they are, or just want to claim credits, then they will wring out any profit they can and pay off their systems with it. So you need people buying in at that point and perpetually to sustain it.
Think about it, you own a Solar rig, you hear about Solar Coin, lets say you even hold your credited coin for a few months. What else is there to do with the coin but wait for the price to go up? So you see a bump in price, you take your coin to market, I guess that is all you can really do since you already bought your SolarCoin T-Shirt in USD and can get it for free by selling off the credited coin.
The only ability of this coin to make progress will be those who think it is worth investing in who buy in. Anyone who gets credits will automatically sell them at market for BitCoin. So you have a constant sell off. People who buy these sells can use the coin of course, but on what? Even if there is something to use it on the Merchant must go back to Fiat and sells, perpetual downtrend. So you have a repeating cycle and downward trend. No stability since there is too much coin, then you have profiteers, but it will soon be proven you can not make a profit so even they will go away.
Hope you guys figure this out somehow...
Just in case you missed this real-life answer to your concerns - came out a week or so ago:
http://www.coindesk.com/clients-prompt-green-energy-supplier-to-accept-bitcoin/You just illustrated my point, they are accepting BitCoin payments. As they accept BitCoin now they do not need another source of coin. Why would they? So they can go from SolarCoin back into BitCoin? So what happens now when a huge company starts to accept BitCoin for energy they produce now turns BitCoin into a shell game. Example: The company accepts Thousands of BitCoin for the payment of their Power. The company then can choose to either Speculate that people are buying the BitCoin to pay their bills with and there may be plenty of buyers of BitCoin so they may hold and wait for the price to climb. Or they just sell out immediately to FIAT. The Power Company must pay its employees, must do preventative maintenance on their infrastructure. They must get Money for the BitCoin Payments, in order to fulfill their economic liabilities.
So this power is generated now by the power company at a fraction of the cost of what they charge, and bears its brunt of Consumer COST or the companies Revenue into BitCoin. BitCoin is volitile mainly because these companies are accepting it now only to sell it out. Creating no economic worth other than a transaction. Repeat this over and over and see how the price of BitCoin will decline, this is the same issue facing SolarCoin and staring it right in the face. Since everyone KNOWS companies who accept any Crypto Currency have to get out in order to be economically stable.
Do you expect this Green Company to live in a BitCoin bubble and pay its workers in BitCoin and pay all of its contractors and suppliers in BitCoin? If you say yes to this now you have to also realize that every worker/employee, contractor or supplier who accepts the Power Company payment in BitCoin must also not break the bubble and leave for FIAT. Otherwise the selling alone will be its own depreciation. Again you may have people buying in to pay their power bill over and over but why? The people using BitCoin are most likely the ones who got in early and hoarded it and sold off only to buy in lower. So they love using BitCoin it is a great deal.
Now why would I take $400 a month to go to an exchange and buy $400 worth of BitCoin just to pay my utility bill? If the price goes up or down the Utility will PEG to FIAT so it won't take away money from my $400, but I just created an extra step where I didn't need to just to pay my bill. So this shows a sell off is more likely in the long run rather than a buy in. People who Buy in are either Speculating or buying Alt Coins in hope they sky-rocket, kind of like SolarCoin. When you should be understanding more by now that the prices will not sky-rocket and make you Rich, they will just be swapped out for FIAT when companies need liquidity.