The costs and benefits of solar energy

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The costs and benefits of solar energy

When someone starts powering their home with solar energy and stops buying power from their local utility, many like to think they've "gone off the grid." But in many areas, they're not as independent as you might think. Barry Petersen has more. Air Date: Apr 16, 2022

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A look at the cost of solar energy access and who benefits from it
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When someone starts powering their home with solar energy and stops buying power from their local utility, many like to think they've "gone off the grid." But in many areas, they're not as independent as you might think. Barry Petersen has more.

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[in2herbs]

1. These "reporters" failed to disclose that when the sun is not shining or it's nighttime, people with

solar are paying for the grid, unless these people have a BUSS system. Just because you have solar does not mean you are "off the grid." Without a BUSS system to go with your solar, when the power company loses power so do you.

[Caribbeans]

2. Solar + Hydrogen True energy independence

Scientific American June 19, 2008

Inside the Solar-Hydrogen House: No More Power Bills--Ever

A New Jersey resident generates and stores all the power he needs with solar panels and hydrogen

EAST AMWELL, N.J.—Mike Strizki has not paid an electric, oil or gas bill—nor has he spent a nickel to fill up his Mercury Sable—in nearly two years. Instead, the 51-year-old civil engineer makes all the fuel he needs using a system he built in the capacious garage of his home, which employs photovoltaic (PV) panels to turn sunlight into electricity that is harnessed in turn to extract hydrogen from tap water...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hydrogen-house/

The price of every piece of equipment described in the above SA article has plummeted due to mass production and soon all this will be affordable

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. Sometimes people end up in exactly the right job.

Hydrogen House Project

Founder of the Hydrogen House Project, Mike Strizki served as Project Engineer for over 16 years with the Office of Research and Technology in the New Jersey Department of Transportation where he developed renewable energy technologies.