Aside from the fact that they are listening to propaganda, it’s also a matter of framing. They think of solar as green weenie shit, the ineffectual limp dick replacement for tried and true all American machine power.
It all starts sounding different when you frame it as a security issue. Large scale solar will keep working through almost anything, even if parts of it are damaged. Most other forms of power need constant maintenance and can suffer catastrophic failure that renders the whole thing inoperable and costing a fortune to replace.
More importantly, it adds flexibility since it can be rapidly deployed and remains effective at smaller scales. The military wants solar because the alternative is often a gas generator that needs fuel shipped in by truck, a common target for attack. If your house has a solar roof and battery backup, a blackout isn’t going to effect you. Power can be out for weeks and you’ll barely notice, while previously the only option was a gas generator that only powers a few circuits in your house and is inevitably going to run out of fuel.
The more widespread solar and battery gets, the more secure we are as a civilization against large scale catastrophes that disrupt the grid, whether that’s war, sabotage or natural disasters.
That’s a great way of putting it.
We’ve had fewer power outages at our new offgrid house (0) than we had living anywhere else
I honestly think it’s egotistical dipshits who can’t admit to being wrong about “there’s no such thing as climate change” they’ve been going on and on about, for decades.
Only now they really can’t deny it, so it’s this little nit-picking of everything that still lets them say “see, I’m still so smart about this stuff, and smart me thinks we still shouldn’t do anything about climate change”.
Gonna get us all killed.
nit-picking of everything that still lets them say “see, I’m still so smart about this stuff"
Ah, the famous Jordan Peterson gambit:
- Present a problem in great detail.
- Explain how this problem is just how things must be, and obviously the only way forward is to roll over and maintain status quo.
- If anyone proposes a solution they’re a silly liberal who doesn’t understand the complexity of the problem.
Lol, that’s bang on! Well done.
It’ll be interesting when the pendulum swings towards EVs in america. Car companies will have to convince those coal and gas chuds to go back on all the rhetoric they’ve been fed in order to stay relevent in an evolving market.
Luckily these fucking morons have the memory of a goldfish.
True, I’m excited to see the flavor next month.
Mfer do you think burnt coal or a coal powerplant can be recycled?
I feel like this is missing “Prime Farmland”
I keep quoting this article but there are lots of others. Grazing & solar go together quite well.
We could be massively subsidizing corn instead of generating electricity
That is the #1 excuse right now