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.
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.
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.