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Old Energy Beating Cleantech To a Pulp

Thomas Barta, great points you made. A lot of us out here are in soooooooo much agreement about the things you mention, like the turn-key business network. As you know, that probably won't happen until either most or all of the states separately have enacted similar net-metering laws, and/or the Feds have really gotten serious about coal, gas, nuclear waste pollution, as well as depending on foreign sources of fuels, and changed their priorities in regard to tax credits, subsidies etc.

Unfortunately, so far, there has not been enough people to really galvanize quick progress. It has been, and will probably continue to be, a turtle's progress in the "good old USA," and not the much more serious commitment that is seen in Europe.

Your comment on thermal-turbine solar technology really hits home. If you want to read a passage from Aldous Huxley in 1939 about thermal-solar turbine power from one of his prophetic novels, you can go here:

www.simpleandclear.com...

I have some off-grid solar that helps me reduce my grid usage.But I would really prefer (at the present time) if I lived in a state with net metering (and more contractors), in which case having an on-grid system would be much easier to accomplish. A combination of off-grid and on-grid solar would be perfect.