@jensorensen very timely. assembling my "balcony solar" panels that will power my EV. I'm such a loooooser.

@ai6yr I really wonder how much stupider we can get here before society collapses and if you look at the changes to education being made in red states its like putting gas on that dumb and dumber fire https://abc11.com/post/nc-solar-farm-rejected-over-fear-it-will-suck-up-energy/1122081/

@ScottMGS @pluralistic lol, I noticed that line too. Indeed, dancing with words.

@smallsolar my solar panels are impossible to see unless you're on the roof or flying. I've only ever seen them in photos.We didn't hide them on purpose, it was just an accident of the shape of our roof. We live in a terrace, without space between houses to step back and see the south-ish facing slope. This is pretty common for terraced houses, so there's a fair amount of potential stealth solar there.

@susankayequinn Reminds me of farmers near small/midsized cities in the US Midwest opposing wind turbines:They could lease the land the turbine stands on for far more than the price of the crops that would grow on the tiny footprint, and still have a large field to keep farming those crops. Win/win.But would oppose, because they were close enough to an urban area, they were hoping to sell the field to a property developer to build suburban sprawls of houses.Turbines would force that land to stay a farm forever and not a one time huge cash payout.

@sleepy62 @KFvMalssen Stats on farm use of renewableshttps://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/96-325-x/2021001/article/00016-eng.htm

@C3nC3 Gut gesagt! Dem ist nichts hinzu zu fügen!Die ganze Infrastruktur die daran vierdient: #Erdölraffinerien, #Tankstellenbetreiber Wartungs- und #Reparaturwerkstatten (höhere Wartungskosten bei #verbrenner Hersteller von Fahrzeugteilen: z.B. Unternehmen, die #Zahnräder für #Getriebe herstellen, Transport- und Logistikunternehmen für die Verteilung des Kraftstoffs von Raffinerien zu Tankstellen.Man muss umdenken, irgendwann is mal over. Die Faustkeilindustrie machte das auch durch.

@nicd The building I used to work at (just retired) had solar panels angled so that snow accumulated. Maintenance staff would take a broom and sweep the snow off.