Comment

Comment on ‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off

AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

But people will always be interested in generating their own, just like we don’t use communal bath houses, or community heating, or unfortunately mass transit. Yes, group services can be a lot more efficient and more reliable but they’re also out of your control and become an ongoing cost

source

Sort:hotnew top

Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Who is we? Lots of places do communal bath houses. Japan has an entire industry around it. Mass transit is also highly prevalent.

Yes there will always be some level of individual desire to do things or need in some cases but communal projects are useful and common I don’t get the dismissal of that for energy creation something we long ago figured out was better to be done at scale and distributed after.

This is neoliberalism and treating it like it’s the only way to exist. It’s a failure of consideration or imagination. Either way your take is not right for that.

source
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

just like we don’t use communal bath houses, or community heating, or unfortunately mass transit

Spas and apartments and buses/trains do absolutely exist. Only the former is considered “luxury” in the US, though.

Yes, group services can be a lot more efficient and more reliable but they’re also out of your control

Wasn’t Solar City’s whole gambit to effectively buy everyone’s roofs and lease them back for a fraction of their real market value?

I don’t think you escape “Own nothing and be happy” just by throwing up a few hundred watts of solar on an extension cord.

source
- AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Wasn’t Solar City’s whole gambit ….
  
  Yes there were and still are too many scammers. Sometimes I think that’s held the industry back even more than the price. If we had any consumer protections, it would blow up the installer industry.
  
  That doesn’t change my point
  
  source