Wind, solar farms produce 10% of US power in the first four months of 2018

Re:Wind, solar farms produce 10% of US power in the first fo... by onetimemanytime on Saturday June 30, 2018 @04:12AM (#17429982)

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.

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Re:Wind, solar farms produce 10% of US power in the first fo... by agumonkey on Saturday June 30, 2018 @05:26AM (#17430130)

Consider what happens when people are mostly energy independant, efficient, and have open source software to turn this into quite a lot of different things.

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Re:Wind, solar farms produce 10% of US power in the first fo... by onetimemanytime on Saturday June 30, 2018 @06:30AM (#17430280)

Everything, 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...

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Re:Wind, solar farms produce 10% of US power in the first fo... by agumonkey on Saturday June 30, 2018 @07:48AM (#17430498)

I'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 ?

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