Comment by nancyminusone
4 days ago
That's fine if said trash actually ends up in the landfill. When it ends up ont the grass next to the parking lot is when you start to get the idea that we're all living in each others filth.
Also I disagree that energy should be the item to minimize. It makes sense if you are burning stuff for it, but we've known how to get free energy from the sky for quite a while.
If solar energy is free, or close enough not to matter, it's odd that the quote I got for installing it for my house is tens of thousands of dollars. Or that about 700M people don't have electricity, or that 2B people cook with wood, charcoal, dung, etc. But I can see why, if you believe that energy is free, you would have an entirely different view of global and local economics.
using 'roof solar is expensive, therefor solar is expensive" is borderline disingenuous. It's well established that roof solar is freqently not cost effective.
Which has little relation to installing 100 acres worth. and, its likely the ROI will get even higher as we build more solar fields, and more HV transmission lines.