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I'm all for renewable energy, but what's up with the push (and subsidization) for homeowners to become mini power plant operators? It's even weirder with home b
by hot_gril 4y ago
I'm all for renewable energy, but what's up with the push (and subsidization) for homeowners to become mini power plant operators? It's even weirder with home batteries involved. Yeah you save on transmission costs, but it's overall a lot cheaper, safer, and less politically messy to do this at dedicated facilities or huge buildings like malls.
- jeffbee 4y agoIt plays together with other ridiculous myths like urban farming. People want to feel and appear green regardless of objective reality.
- hot_gril 4y agoYeah but at least urban farming isn't super subsidized. If someone wants to play with home solar or farming as a hobby, that's great, but it's not everyone else's job to make sure it's profitable for that person. Maybe the issue with urban farming is that water is subsidized, and those people use a lot of it.
- hot_gril 4y agoAlso, I'm happy at least something is being done. It's just not a great way.
- samatman 4y agoThis things is clearly not designed for residential roofs. For one thing, it's hideous. But mostly it's intended to be installed on the ridge of a standard commercial flat roof, tar-paper style, and take advantage of the effect which large walls have on the wind. Houses, being lower, having (generally) pitched roofs, and therefore no structural ridge, are not the intended market.