Germans Combat Climate Change From Their Balconies: Plug-and-play solar panels are popping up in yards and on balcony railings across Germany, driven by bargain prices and looser regulations.
Germans Combat Climate Change From Their Balconies: Plug-and-play solar panels are popping up in yards and on balcony railings across Germany, driven by bargain prices and looser regulations.
Plug-and-play solar panels are popping up in yards and on balcony railings across Germany, driven by bargain prices and looser regulations.
Hurray! We've solved climate change, and will never guess what the solution was. Buying more cheap Chinese junk. And here I though that consumerism was the cause of climate change. Silly me.
Fuck off!
local energy independence is a massive W regardless of where the panels came from or if they were subsidized
No. When the pigs highjack green energy to fool you into buying more shit. The poor get poorer and the the planet suffers. But if your goal is wealth inequality and unfair power distribution, I guess you could call it a massive W.
If this was truly about power you could make those panels 30% - 50% more efficient by pointing them at the fucking sun. But then you'd only be able to sell half as many.
Are you claiming that solar panels have a positive co2 footprint? This policy change was a massive step to a) boost solar power and b) boost decentralized energy security. Calling this "consumerism" is absolutely moronic.
Are you claiming that solar panels have a positive co2 footprint?
Wait, are you claiming they don't? (assuming you mean a positive CO₂ footprint means net emission of CO₂).
Solar panels absolutely don't reduce CO₂. They make things worse more slowly, just as electric cars do, but they're still making things worse. They are most certainly not carbon neutral, let alone permanently capturing CO₂. They're an energy multiplier, which is less bad than using the energy without the multiplier, but it isn't a net positive.
Which I think is probably the crux of OPs point.
Edit: WTF, where are OP's messages? They weren't abusive from my memory, they were quite the opposite of climate-crisis-denying. They were perhaps hyperbolic and absolutist, but I from my memory of them there was no reason to remove them.