Solar panels could destroy U.S. utilities, according to U.S. utilities

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91. Responding with ad hominems seems like a glaring admission

of guilt about something you have no need to feel guilty about.

You're doing much better than most with carbon. But in a post like this where pro-renewables people get intoxicated on a distributed-power high, it's appropriate to point out that 99/100 of people with solar systems still depend on being hooked up to the grid. And in the mad rush to piss on utilties and big corporations, it's also important to point out that a lot of people can't shell out the thousands required for their own array, so their rates go up to compensate.

Maybe the time will come when solar's affordable for everyone, storage is cheap, and sufficient to cover the occasionally weeklong run of cloudiness...but I doubt it. It's certainly not the most efficient, and ironically, owning our own power is another flavor of privatization - a tendency which liberals usually get huffy about.