Re: [OM] LEDs R Us

[Scott Gomez]

Although I mentioned huge solar arrays being built in California. I'm not a
fan of the practice. Much better to encourage rooftop solar and small
distributed systems. Less blight on the views, and no perpetuation of
near-monopoly control of  energy.

On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 8:23 AM Mike Lazzari <watershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> > Wind is a bad economic decision.  ....
> >   The distribution system is actually the most expensive part ....
> I agree Chuck. But there are a couple of gaps in the mountain range here
> that are conveniently located near large dams. In some places it does
> make sense. In most places though the subsidies just make it an
> expensive and huge blight on the landscape.  The subsidized large solar
> arrays in the desert are similarly both destructive and expensive. What
> ever happened to individual rooftop arrays? Even now the cost of
> batteries isn't so bad compared with the cost of the subsidies and
> distribution. Even without and/or inadequate storage it would lessen the
> load on the net.
>
> M
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