A Solar Snooze
Today’s daily dose of doomscrolling includes:
- A practically microscopic dog on a huge plastic chain carried by a fierce looking Japanese man.
- What feels like awful discourse about the Supergirl movie.(There's a solar pun to be made here)
- Plug in Solar panel controversy.
Plug in, or balcony (a bit on the nose, huh?) solar began widespread adoption in the early 2010’s. Consumers sought to remove a bit of stress of their monthly electric bills, and found their desires for renewable energy in an easier to install, simple system that could provide small amounts of electricity back into their home systems.
These systems consist of a solar module, micro converter, and various other components that sound like they belong on the Millennium Falcon.
These systems are especially vaunted after because they feed their electricity directly back into your home’s electrical usage in real time.
Despite widespread adoption of technology in Germany and other places around the globe (good for them :p), here in the states, adoption has been slow despite the massive market potential due to a litany of regulations. These regulations have been slowly dissolved into a leap-able amount of hurdles, beginning with the slow grind of the legal systems in Utah, Colorado, Maine, and Virginia.
This advancement has come at a convenient time, as electric bills continue to rise around the nation due to the war with Iran and the construction of data centers in residential communities.
While progress has been steady, opponents have come in the form of those who claim harmful back feeding could damage systems or electrical workers.
This seems to just be hot air though (see what I did there?) as these systems are designed to prevent back feeding entirely.
This might seem frivolous in the grand scheme of things, as even in Germany only about .5% of power is produced this way. However I think the takeaway here is that this money stays in the hands of the consumers as opposed to whoever owns the solar plants, and in the U.S. alone I've calculated (badly) that it would save U.S consumers about a billion dollars a year.
More importantly however, it's about the message.
Collaboration
Is small steps
That seem unimportant.
Though quiet alone
They've moved mountains together.
It's looking like
It won't happen soon
But I've been looking forward
To another man on the moon.
-Soarin
P.S. I got the KFC Supergirl meal and was disappointed by the Lobo figurine instead of Kara.
