>Well I'm sold. How did humanity survive without such a life changing invention? >But seriously. What are the things that you couldn't do before that you've su

>Well I'm sold. How did humanity survive without such a life changing invention? >But seriously. What are the things that you couldn't do before that you've suddenly discovered that you can't live without? This is a bad faith logical fallacy, namely an Appeal to Extremes amongst other ones. "This provides value" is not remotely synonymous with "can't live without". "Humanity survived" without antibiotics, vaccines, electricity in general, houses, or Hacker News. That does not necessarily mean we were better off without them or that it's wrong to choose to spend some energy budget on them so long as externalities are accounted for. I explained how I found it very valuable, albeit without getting into things like slip risk on ice or leaves, increasing numbers of ticks and disease risk from them, difficulties as one gets older etc. How about you explain why electric blowers powered by my solar panels are a bad thing?