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Originally Posted by Kodos
Is it okay if they can be considered part of the solution? I have solar panels on our house, and they reduce my bill to just a service charge of $25 in the summer when my neigbhors were complaining on Facebook about having $700 electric bills. Obviously, in the winter, they don't help as much.
I think it's good to come at the problem from multiple angles. Solar/nuclear/geothermal/wind/cold fusion if it ever comes to pass/etc. It takes a village.
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You don't need my permission. Nor do you rely on solar energy when it isn't producing enough to power your home.
I don't agree with the subsidies often included with panel installation, and it's such a rabbit hole to talk about the slave labor involved in their production (or the village the slaves in question used to inhabit). But this is a decision you've made for your household - not a decision a government has made for its population.
As for the $700 your neighbors pay... either you live next door to mansions (and if they're complaining about $700, they're probably in over their heads for reasons having nothing to do with electricity) or they're starting to feel the pinch of this massive and ill-considered transition. It will get far worse, and quite soon. Energy security and energy poverty are likely to be the biggest stories of the second half of the '20s.