The total area of solar panels it would take to power the world, Europe, and Germany

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169. "California could follow in 2017, New York and Arizona in 2018, and many other states soon after."

That's solar plus storage, solar itself is already competitive for peak-load in many areas.

If you really find net-metering "offensive and immoral" then you're extremely misinformed - it's not your fault, there's a lot of conservative right-wing misinformation out there.

Actually, your entire post is full of misinformation.

For example, you falsely claim:

Johnny solar owner gets to use those very same lines for FREE

But the scientifically verifiable reality is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering

A 2012 report on the cost of net metering in the State of California, commissioned by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), ... found that solar customers do pay more on their power bills than what it costs the utility to serve them (Table 5, page 10: average 103% of their cost of service across the three major utilities in 2011).[14]

... an independent report conducted by the consulting firm Crossborder Energy found that the benefits of California's net metering program outweigh the costs to ratepayers. Those net benefits will amount to more than $92 million annually upon the completion of the current net metering program.[15]

So you have it exactly backwards - the reality is net-metering saves ratepayers money, and it is "offensive and immoral" for the utilities to prevent people from using the electric lines they are paying for, in fact paying over and above what it costs the utility to manage them.


You also mistakenly believe:

all because a solar company lobbied enough lawmakers in Hawaii to do such an immoral thing.

In reality, the history of net-metering in the US goes back to Jimmy Carter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed-in_tariff

History
United States

The first form of feed-in tariff (under another name) was implemented in the US in 1978 under President Jimmy Carter, who signed the National Energy Act (NEA). This law included five separate Acts, one of which was the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA). The purpose of the National Energy Act was to encourage energy conservation and develop new energy resources, including renewables such as wind, solar and geothermal power.[20][21]

Within PURPA was a provision that required utilities to purchase electricity generated from qualifying independent power producers at rates not to exceed their avoided cost.[21] Avoided costs were designed to reflect the cost that a utility would incur to provide that same electrical generation.

I've never heard anyone call Jimmy Carter "immoral", even ultra-right-wing conservatives consider him "moral".