shogun32
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the real question is who is going to pay for it all. And with what money?The real idea is roof tops for the long list of reasons.
if rooftop solar was so compelling everyone would be doing it. Not only is there ~zero USA PV industry - we shipped all that and the pollution costs to China so we can pretend it doesn't exist, we can't manufacture any of it hear because we've dismantled our manufacturing and mining base. Only now are the Australians for example bothering to wean themselves off the China teat but it's going to take no less than 5 years.
By current math you can't get your money back on a personal solar installation for at least 15 years and those calculations also included fat "rebates" from the power grid which is a preposterous distortion of economics. Just because a lot of people might slap solar on their house does NOT mean you can turn off the big, ugly gen plant be it coal/gas/nuc. Your utility bill (per wh) will not only not go down, it'll go up because you still have to spend all the same money in staff and maint on an idled plant as you spend on one running full tilt.
I don't have the numbers for greenie-wienie datacenter and factory/retail installs and how long it takes them to get back their so-called investment. I doubt any of them make a damn worth of sense - it's all eco-preening.
What really chaps my ass is *I* get to pay for this exercise in stupidity. Tax rebates? I paid for that damn you. Tax breaks for Amazon/Wallmart etc to put solar cells on their roofs? Oh sure, the tax man takes money out of my wallet to give it to them. Pay your OWN damn way to your PV nirvana, thank you. Take it out of your executive compensation, take it out of your investors, take it out of your customer's hides. Leave the rest of us the hell out of your theft of the public purse and myriad scams.
I need to drive angry some more...
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