re: #579 windsagio

Home solar is one of those things we should really be investing a lot more into. There are plenty of programs (altho admittedly in Europe) where people with good setups are actually selling 100% renewable energy back into the grid, and being paid for it.

Startup costs are a bitch tho’.

They are taking advantage of subsidies. They sell the power back at an inflated rate that gets spread evenly across the users. This means the people wealthy enough to purchase them have their little cash cow paid for by the poor people who can’t afford the subsidy panel. But they are forced to pay for them.