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**enteltcheft** · 08-03-2009, 03:39 AM

Socialism is not the answer to anything first of all, and most people already shop locally (within 10 miles of their house)...who wouldn't? Not to mention, solar panels? You going to buy those for me? Solar panels are very expensive and to have enough of them to power a house would be way too expensive...that's not a solution until the costs get lowered greatly.

I could be evil and say that the costs would drop if people were forced to buy.

A tax credit would do, but you would have to adjust it every 6 months or so to keep the pricedrops in production coming through to the retail price (Germany did screwed up with their solar policy that increases their electricity prices and keeps solar panel prices high). Also the credit can only be so big that it makes sense to use them in sunny areas of the USA, not the whole country. Otherwise it would be too expensive and prohibit the development of technologies that do not depend on the sun.

However, due to the fact that solar panels produce electricity when its sunny, hence all the ACs run on full blast which usually brings the grid to its limits, they could be a solution to improve stability of the power grid in some areas but you need to be very carefull how you increase their usage.

08-03-2009, 03:39 AM	#33
enteltcheft Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 422 Senior Member	Socialism is not the answer to anything first of all, and most people already shop locally (within 10 miles of their house)...who wouldn't? Not to mention, solar panels? You going to buy those for me? Solar panels are very expensive and to have enough of them to power a house would be way too expensive...that's not a solution until the costs get lowered greatly. I could be evil and say that the costs would drop if people were forced to buy. A tax credit would do, but you would have to adjust it every 6 months or so to keep the pricedrops in production coming through to the retail price (Germany did screwed up with their solar policy that increases their electricity prices and keeps solar panel prices high). Also the credit can only be so big that it makes sense to use them in sunny areas of the USA, not the whole country. Otherwise it would be too expensive and prohibit the development of technologies that do not depend on the sun. However, due to the fact that solar panels produce electricity when its sunny, hence all the ACs run on full blast which usually brings the grid to its limits, they could be a solution to improve stability of the power grid in some areas but you need to be very carefull how you increase their usage.
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