Comment on Why States Are Making It Harder to Save Money With Solar Panels | The changes are costing homeowners money. But they also reflect a changing grid — and the need for home batteries.

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• MasterBlaster@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  From DuckDuckGo AI:

  No—restrictions weren’t only in one party’s states, but Republican-led states did pass several of the hardest measures, including bills in places like Texas and Oklahoma. The report also says both Democrat- and GOP-controlled states passed some more permissive siting policies, so restriction was not limited to just one party.

  The referenced resource: latitudemedia.com/…/mapping-the-state-level-battl…

  I’m pretty sure this is yet another example of the wealthy vs everybody else situation, so some of the Democrats succumb to bribery, campaign donations from corporate “constituents”. I like to think there are more Democrats with a sense of civic duty than there are Republicans. This is why paying attention to the actual candidate’s pitch and history is important. Don’t vote “party line”.

  More permissive siting policies can legitimately be hard choices for the greater benefit of the community. Seek nuance when evaluating such policies.

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  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    From DuckDuckGo AI:

    Cannot recommend DuckDuckGo’s NoAi page enough so that we can avoid encouraging the construction of yet more data centers and the destruction for both the climate and the local environment they are built in.

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    • MasterBlaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Interesting, I’ll check it out. I don’t think the AI we have now is inherently evil, but it’s good to not necessarily be forced to use it.

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  • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    the article is about how much money utilities buy back extra power from solar for. So, slightly different. Though the rule of thumb still applies as home batteries’ subsidy was eliminated by our demented rapist puppet of big oil.

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