Nick Young 
There’s a limited supply of oil. It’s very expensive and wars are fought for it.
There is endless sunlight. It’s free and no wars are fought for it.
Let’s choose solar.
MWT@nickofnz Trying my best to choose solar here. Sadly I live on the south side of a tall hill in a rented house with a whole bunch of trees uphill of me, and even with 500 watts of portable solar panels, it's questionable whether I'll have enough sunlight to fully charge the portable generators all winter. But at least I'm on the solar ladder!
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Brad Macpherson@mo @mwt @nickofnz Likewise with wind, hydro, etc - there's value in community-scale projects to invest in replacing FF generation with harvesting energy from whichever sources are nearby. There's _something_ nearby everyone that doesn't require digging stuff up to burn it.
Digging stuff up to manufacture infrastructure is a different prospect, since that stuff can generally be reused and recycled indefinitely. The damage is far more limited than endless digging to burn.
@brad @mo @nickofnz
You're lucky to live in a country that thinks those scales of projects are important and worth funding.
Meanwhile, our country wants to build a new billion-dollar LNG terminal and make the electricity companies pay for it, which means of course that the electricity companies are making their customers pay for it. My particular electricity company touts itself as being 100% certified green, and still we have to pay for this LNG terminal. My portable solar panels are my personal form of protest.
@mwt @mo @nickofnz Me? No, no, sadly the country I live in is under the control of spivs and landlords...
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-41595715.html
