Tesla promised 1,000 Solar Roofs per week by 2019. It installed roughly 3,000 total, stopped reporting numbers, and is now pivoting to conventional panels.
The idea that sustainable energy needs to be done at a consumer level at all, puting them on our roofs, it’s just silly in most cases. The United States has more than enough land to essentially supply us with what would basically amount to unlimited energy. We don’t need solar on like 1/1000 houses who’s owner decides to do it. We need actual mass infrastructure development.
Edit: Everyone missing the “consumer based” part of my comment and focusing on “roof top solar” as my main criticism. It’s not. Roof top solar can be a complimentary part of it. But there is a reason China (the leader in solar infrastructure) is puting solar farms in deserts and quite literally “making the desert bloom”. The US solutions are just embarrassing in comparison. We should be embarrassed.
Equipping houses with solar reduces upgrading work on the grid.
When it’s hot and the sun is shining, air conditioning works without putting any strain on the grid and with a properly sized battery this even works at night.
Better use the big solar parks for industrial use of electric energy and put the source of energy as close to the destination as possible.
We do need mass infrastructure development, but that does not mean that roof top solar is unnecessary. Especially since that infrastructure is not being built in enough to meet demand
I never said roof solar was bad. I said the solution of it at a consumer level is bad. But everyone else besides you seemed to want to read it as “roof solar bad”. So I appreciate that.
However, under capitalism, market “solutions” are given tax incentives to make the industry profitable. So, unfortunately, the solution in the US is to set policy that benefits a consumer based approach that essentially is a drop in the ocean of the infrastructure development that needs to be done.
That’s why the idea of roof top consumer based solar is “silly” to me. Its like hiring a mall cop to storm the beaches of Normandy. But it’s presented as a reasonable means of moving the US to solar infrastructure. Like, we just provide tax incentives and everyone will automatically do shit. Sometimes you have to actually fund the “army” and take control of the manufacturing to actually win the “war”.
I’m not against roof top solar. I’m against the massive corporate welfare going to “green” companies for decades while we fail to meet any reasonable climate goals.
The idea that sustainable energy needs to be done at a consumer level at all, puting them on our roofs, it’s just silly in most cases. The United States has more than enough land to essentially supply us with what would basically amount to unlimited energy. We don’t need solar on like 1/1000 houses who’s owner decides to do it. We need actual mass infrastructure development.
Edit: Everyone missing the “consumer based” part of my comment and focusing on “roof top solar” as my main criticism. It’s not. Roof top solar can be a complimentary part of it. But there is a reason China (the leader in solar infrastructure) is puting solar farms in deserts and quite literally “making the desert bloom”. The US solutions are just embarrassing in comparison. We should be embarrassed.
Equipping houses with solar reduces upgrading work on the grid.
When it’s hot and the sun is shining, air conditioning works without putting any strain on the grid and with a properly sized battery this even works at night.
Better use the big solar parks for industrial use of electric energy and put the source of energy as close to the destination as possible.
Using existing roofs uses no extra space.
We do need mass infrastructure development, but that does not mean that roof top solar is unnecessary. Especially since that infrastructure is not being built in enough to meet demand
I never said roof solar was bad. I said the solution of it at a consumer level is bad. But everyone else besides you seemed to want to read it as “roof solar bad”. So I appreciate that.
However, under capitalism, market “solutions” are given tax incentives to make the industry profitable. So, unfortunately, the solution in the US is to set policy that benefits a consumer based approach that essentially is a drop in the ocean of the infrastructure development that needs to be done.
That’s why the idea of roof top consumer based solar is “silly” to me. Its like hiring a mall cop to storm the beaches of Normandy. But it’s presented as a reasonable means of moving the US to solar infrastructure. Like, we just provide tax incentives and everyone will automatically do shit. Sometimes you have to actually fund the “army” and take control of the manufacturing to actually win the “war”.
I’m not against roof top solar. I’m against the massive corporate welfare going to “green” companies for decades while we fail to meet any reasonable climate goals.