The other day I spoke to a woman near Tucson, Arizona (an hour from where I am moving) who had done a lot with her 5 acres, her livestock, her house and who and some real interest and expertise in engineering. She had looked into installing some solar PV a year or two ago and had run into the really bad Net Metering laws or practices that were in place in her area.
There was no way that financially the math could add up for her to install the PV. Not being wealthy enough to do such a project for do-gooder reasons, she opted to wait it out. She had also run into a Colorado resident who had run into precisely the same raw deal. I've *never* heard the President or Vice President discuss or mention this issue, and yet it is central to promulgating a new Distributed Energy Paradigm (which they imply they want but apparently don't actually give a damn about). This is deliberate neglect of an issue, in my view, perpetrated in order to stall the implementation of a good idea. We see that the best way to defeat a good idea is to nip it in the bud from the onset by not allowing that it even exists, by never mentioning it, never bringing it up, never discussing it. Anyone who tries to do so is dismissed as overly-concerned about obscure overly-environmental impractical nonsense. There are of course other technologies and nuances to technological and societal and political science issues which also suffer from this intensely effective strategy of studied neglect. Regenerative brakes come to mind, not to mention one or two biofuel-related issues, not to mention some other solar-energy related issues. But I think it is worthwhile to mention this particular area, of Net-Metering. It's been obvious for many years now that some leadership at the national level is needed to at least bring some attention to this issue, if not to offer streamlined and *fair* guidelines or laws, that will make sure that neither consumer nor utility get a raw deal. MM > >Do not be so sure, they are professional on making mistakes. Think about >all the money spent on finding WMDs and "Iraqi freedom" . As a byproduct of >this mistake, they now control maybe the largest oil reserves on Earth. > >The money that is spent on hydrogen "freedom car", might end up to be a >competitive range of diesel engines. VW seems to have close to 50% of that >market otherwise. When the current administration use the word freedom, it >can be anything. > >Hakan Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
