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Originally Posted by sc_rufctr
What if the roof of your house is covered in solar panels like mine is?
My quarterly bill averages about $30 & on one occasion last year I got a $12 credit.
(But I spent around 20k installing them 8 years ago.)
There are options to generating electricity and IMO the greenest, best way going forward is nuclear.
Like it or not, for better or worse at some point in the future most of us will be driving electric cars.
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The problem with solar is when you scale it to everyone, doesn't work out.
It will take Nukes.
What a lot of people fail to realize is that electric cars were premium up until 1912. They aren't some future technology but rather even older than practical gasoline engine cars. The efficiency of gasoline wasn't able to be taken advantage of until the invention of several items that made gasoline cars easy for the masses to operate and learn.
Automatic Starter being a significant step.
Baker, Chicago Electric, forgotten names as Gasoline became the wonder fuel of the future taking Americans everywhere.
In 1900, the Electric car population was 172% of the Gasoline car population per Department of Energy information.
The problem with trying to force a technology on the masses is if it were so great you wouldn't have to force it.(I consider significant subsidies a means of force.) How well electric cars work out is location dependent.