Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them

• fta@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What’s to stop anyone from installing a panel without a licensed reviewer taking a look?

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How much energy does your panel pump into the grid?

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    • gibmiser@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What’s stopping me from plugging a diesel generator into my house when the power goes out? Generators are common in rural America. Don’t require a license either.

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      • artyom@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        They require permitting.

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How can cars exist when anyone could do an illegal thing to modify them?!?

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Illegal things are illegal. Good job. This is not. That’s the point.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And things that are regulated are regulated.

      That’s the point.

      What is the point? I mean, truly, what is it that you’re trying to convey in this thread?

      Do us all a favor and use a few sentences to explain that your point actually is here because clearly you’re trying to make a point but you’re going about it in a very strange way.

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      • artyom@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        And things that are regulated are regulated.

        Regulated = legal. This is neither.

        I’ve already explained my point in great detail, several times. The utility is in the right to be concerned about worker safety when people are allowed to connect unpermitted equipment to the grid.

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• chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The world is built around the idea that people follow the rules. If you plug in an uncertified device, you are breaking the law. It’s as simple as that.

  You realize you could fucking plug ANYTHING into electrical systems now? How many people make Widowmaker cords for generators and back feed the fucking grid during outages? This is not some new problem.

  If you’re found fucking around, you find out with a big ass fine/jail. That’s how it works.

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

     If you plug in an uncertified device, you are breaking the law. It’s as simple as that.

    Except it’s not that simple, because it’s not illegal.

    You realize you could fucking plug ANYTHING into electrical systems now?

    You realize that’s illegal?

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