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See what we can do? In a relatively short amount of time, a revolution happened. As prices get lower, unless the state taxes them to the wazoo, DIY-ers can get
by onetimemanytime 8y ago
See what we can do? In a relatively short amount of time, a revolution happened. As prices get lower, unless the state taxes them to the wazoo, DIY-ers can get close to free electricity as after a few years the panels will pay for themselves.
- agumonkey 8y agoConsider what happens when people are mostly energy independant, efficient, and have open source software to turn this into quite a lot of different things.
- onetimemanytime 8y agoEverything, or virtually anything, is closely priced to energy cost. Virtually everything we use, uses energy to be transformed and then transported to us. If we take care of AC (correlates with hot and sunny days), cooking, charging our cars (why nor charge them when the sun is out?) and other household stuff (we can program to do the laundry at 1pm when the sun is at max) a lot of energy is freed for other stuff. Price drops...
- agumonkey 8y agoI'm jumping even further.. beside the price of renewable energy transformer (solar, wind, hydro..), the tools (heating, cutting, radio, etc) and the metatools (computer, network) what else is there to buy ? How close to a closed loop synergy are we ?