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Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them (www.kuow.org)

submitted 3 days ago by grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one to c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net

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“Easy-to-install solar panels that plug into a regular outlet are getting attention just as Americans are worried about rising energy costs. That's because these plug-in or balcony solar panels start shaving off part of a homeowner's or renter's utility bill right away.

"”A year ago, nobody was talking about this," says Cora Stryker, co-founder of Bright Saver, a California nonprofit group that advocates for plug-in solar. The panels are already popular in Germany, where more than 1.2 million of the small plug-in systems are registered with the German government.”

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[–] theparadox@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Articles like this are what make me hate where we are as a society right now.

Are utilities trying to delay them or is the industry that makes these panels paying "news" sources to write articles to help ram the products through and bypass the standard approval process that makes sure they are safe? Maybe a bit of both.

Was this written by a human or an LLM? Is my distrust of everything I read a side effect of the corruption rampant in our system or is it the goal? Maybe a bit of both.

Edit: I see they are part of the NPR network, so maybe more believable and less likely to be slop.

[–] ravenaspiring@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 days ago

Yea, the cognitive load required to evaluate and engage both on the article, as well as politically is so high that ignorance and a shrug seems normal.

I am not sure that a commune in the boonies is the answer, but it certainly seems more appealing then the total system collapse we seem to be apart of lately.