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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TANSTAAFL" data-source="post: 4023461" data-attributes="member: 27098">If solar is so awesome, why not build huge solar farms? Issue is they contribute to global warming! Solar Panels are dark and absorb heat, and heat the air around them. I would suspect your air conditioner may need to work harder. The panels do not work forever either, if your lucky they will last around 20 years, then when the warranty runs out you will need to replace all of them. Inverters also have a limited lifespan. What happens at night or cloudy winter days? Efficiency goes down during the day. Want off the grid, you'll need very expensive batteries that will need to be replaced every 5 to 10 years, even worse the batteries will take up more space than a backup generator. The assumption is also that the first 20 years you get a warranty, that is only as good as the company offering it and I suspect many will be out of business in less than 20 years. Lastly, you have good credit, because you did the right thing you will be punished if you get another mortgage in the future. The current political thought is you did the right thing so you pay. The thought is also these are not your kids, their ours. Add all these together and in the future it will no longer be your electricity, it will be ours to resolve some sort of energy crisis. Yes, that is a worst case scenario but we seem to be a wash in them.Wait another 10 years, we'll have fusion by then (what they have been saying since the Mid 1940's)...</blockquote>

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