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Re:A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished by 23B1 on Saturday July 15, 2023 @09:08PM (#36742486)
Well put. I thought about bringing up the many, many solar panel scams. What an absolute shame.
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Re:A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished by quinn3604 on Saturday July 15, 2023 @09:23PM (#36742589)
are there many solar panel scams? I had no idea
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Re:A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished by 23B1 on Saturday July 15, 2023 @11:15PM (#36743191)
All over social media, spam, everywhere. What happened was the U.S. and state governments started offering tax incentives, so a bunch of middlemen (scammers) popped up to take a portion of that benefit while marketing it to regular folk. It's a whole cottage industry (barf):

https://www.thisoldhouse.com/solar-alternative-energy/review...

https://www.cnet.com/home/energy-and-utilities/solar-panel-s...

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