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Old 12-19-2013, 02:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Dondilion View Post
Agreed but your argument of projecting workers in front of a healthy
environment is in the long run not sustainable. As science and
technology advance certain jobs vanish.

Workers in whatever industry will be smart to observe what's coming
and make adjustment.

No job is guaranteed.
Correction : ConEd is a bad example because they both produce and deliver. Many suburban utility companies however are solely based on delivery not production.

Its not a matter of a job being guaranteed or not. You still need grid power at night. When a storm happens and poles go down who is going to fix them. You still need the workers despite your fancy green system.

The panels are not being advertised as "green" as much as F the money hungry power company. There needs to be a symbiotic sort of relationship between the energy deliverers and the solar producing consumer. Companies like ConEd do not make energy, they are not a supplier, they are an energy delivery company. Whether the power comes from your house or a coal burning plant they do not care as long as they can bill you for delivering the energy. But someone needs to pay for the grid, and your meter spinning backwards all day isn't going to do it.

The problem is solar energy is currently like stealing cable because your utilizing the services of an energy delivery company without paying for it.

Last edited by MikeG22; 12-19-2013 at 02:31 PM.
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