People need to quit focusing so much on their stupid lawns.

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92. Solar on our roofs that could feed into a central system would increase our solar capacity.

We have lots of solar capacity that is not used. That is because the solar has to be economically feasible for the house on which the panels are fitted. We are not set up to allow the feeding of excess electricity produced by one house to feed the needs of the entire city.

Our house is a good example. Lots of room on our roof. Lots of sun exposure. We could produce electricity with panels on our roof. But we personally -- just the two of us retired people -- do not at this point use enough electricity to justify putting up panels now. We will probably put them in when we have to replace our roof. If we could feed the extra electricity we could produce into the system to, let's say, help desalinate water in addition to provide energy for other purposes, we could afford to put the panels on our roof now.

Of course, the oil and gas industries, to say nothing of coal, would never want us to have an electric system that uses the resources in our area.

I say, if West Virginia has coal and wants to burn it and ruin the environment, maybe they should do that. But here in California, we don't mine much coal (if any) and we should be using what we have -- solar power -- to keep our economy rolling.