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Sounds like he is allowed to sell excess back to the grid and payback period would be <20 years. They are warranted for longer. If financing is available it is basically free. ;)
Big if that but more realistically the real kicker here is that all of that is about x3 larger than what most households need.
I get that not everybody has $10k laying around to plop down on panels/batteries all in one go but if you do you can get off the grid now.
> In other words, most people making environmental arguments against animal agriculture are not trying to trick you.
Sadly ven diagram of animal rights advocates, clueless do gooders and environmentalists overlaps greatly.
Bad faith arguments emerge not only by extremists but also by people eager to be part of the movement with no capacity for independent thought. These things take root and become "common knowledge" within the communities.
They don't need to be actively trying to trick me to muddy the waters with their own, however well intentioned, confusion.
We are still dealing with metaphysical arguments - note you didn't provide any numbers or scale or externalities or consideration towards second order effects or unintended consequences.
I can give a contrived example in the other direction (as its easier to recognize the obvious flaws):
Cars bad. Bicycles good. Clearly. Bike lane therefore must be good. Now you get a dozen guys in spandex burning extra calories and compensating by consuming far more burgers than they otherwise would have. And far worse traffic idling their engines at less efficent stop-and-go low speeds for longer.
What was actually accomplished in terms of CO2? We should ban all bicycles instead.
I could spoon feed more details about this incident but if they are already going out of their way to avoid reality there is nothing to do but avoid them.
Try Rick Beato. A favorite teacher on YouTube discussing how AI generated music is towards the end of the climb out of the uncanny valley already.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbo6SdyWGns
The tune had been haunting London for weeks past. It was one of countless similar songs published for the benefit of the proles by a sub-section of the Music Department. The words of these songs were composed without any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as a versificator. But the woman sang so tunefully as to turn the dreadful rubbish into an almost pleasant sound.
-- 1984If you ever come across a bright teenager getting lulled into communism keep this in mind as a very edifying example of the pitfalls of that system. The recordings are chilling.
The ones who watch that recording and sort of pause and after a minute double down that the ends justify the means are a lost cause.
Less funny in real life. Sometimes the jizzless thing falls off with impeccably bad timing. Right when things go boom. People get injured (no deaths yet). Limp home early. Allies let down. Shipping routes elongate by a sad multiple. And it even affects you directly as you pay extra for that Dragon silicon toy you ordered from China.
Politics is seeping where it doesn't belong.
I am very worried.