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-Ch4s3- t1_iw3xuru wrote

Reply to comment by Surur in Rooftop Solar Is Becoming More Accessible to People with Lower Incomes, But Not Fast Enough - Inside Climate News by darth_nadoma

Here let me google this basic fact for you https://rpsc.energy.gov/energy-data-facts.

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Surur t1_iw3ykfq wrote

You said:

> Residential power is only 22% of US electricity consumption, it isn't the most profitable part.

If you are being snarky, it helps to be right:

> The residential sector accounts for about 21% of total U.S. energy consumption.

Energy is not the same as electricity.

Also the EPA disagrees with you lol.

Lastly, your "source" says nothing about profitability.

0/3 lol

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-Ch4s3- t1_iw40aog wrote

Even at 37% of electricity consumption there's no reason to believe that it's "the most profitable". Price per kwh is going to vary a lot regionally and manufacturing and commercial energy might be paying spot prices at odd times.

I guess I just don't get why people like you come in pissing and moaning about the cost of rooftop solar declining. Its obviously a good thing for less energy to be coming from fossil fuels and yet some ass-hat like you always needs to whine about it not being perfect. Seriously half of this sub is just fucking doomers sliding in to piss on everything.

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BrokeVic t1_iw4rgvo wrote

Well I hope you don't feel that way about my posts. Because that is not my intentions at all. I agree it will help a lot of people. My only question is how sustainable will it be in the future considering the facts that state the emissions are worse off than just sticking with regular electricity. Unless the solar panels or wind turbines are running off of hydrogen. And refining hydrogen is becoming cheaper also. So that I believe will be the way to go in the long-term future.

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-Ch4s3- t1_iw4uh35 wrote

I think I was just being a grouchy asshole

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Surur t1_iw420dw wrote

> Even at 37% of electricity consumption there's no reason to believe that it's "the most profitable"

Given that business rates for electricity is usually lower than residential rates, there is no reason it would not be, but whatever. There was no reason for you to make an unsubstantiated claim however.

Anyway, I am all in favour of solar energy. I only expect there will be some disruption due to the transition.

It's not a concept I made up - check out The Utility Death Spiral for more.

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-Ch4s3- t1_iw43qum wrote

I apologize I was being a jerk.

I'm familiar with the Utility Death Spiral, I'm skeptical that its possible at this point in the technology adoption curve of wind/solar to firmly say much about what the grid will or won't look like in the future.

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