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Originally Posted by awareness
Does it depend on world views? If solar wasn't so expensive I'd of adopted it long ago. I dislike the electric companies. I noticed farmers around here with large solar panels. They're prolly selling it back to the electric company.
The brother I've spoken about before, the one that went from local church elder to Native American shaman, lives off the grid, powered by wind.
He told me he'd help me build a wind generator. But upon looking at the map of wind friendly locations, I found it wouldn't work here.
So I burn wood for heat. That's not environmentally friendly either, but it's the best I can do right now. It's colder, as they say, than a witches tit here. No snow, like prolly bro Ohio has, but dipping to 11 at night, and hanging below freezing, so I'm burning thru a lot of wood.
I've become a fire worshiper. I love my stove. Prometheus sure did us a big favor, even if he defied Zeus by stealing fire and introducing it to us mortals. He made a great self sacrifice for us, and got punished for it. Thanks Prometheus.
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Do you have a Franklin stove? My dad had one, very efficient. 0 emissions does not mean we can't burn wood. Simply that we can't burn fossil fuel. Of course we generally think of biofuel, but wood is also a "biofuel" that is renewable.
In 2014 the cost per watt for Solar panels averages $3.86, in 2017 it was $3.17. That is a substantial drop in price and the drop in price has been accelerating in the last 12 months.