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Old 07-04-2023, 07:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Pinball wizard View Post
If solar is so great a deal, why doesn't SECO and the other electric companies rent our roofs and put up solar on them for free? They could harvest the electric and resell it and the homeowner would get free electricity. They would have to throw in a new roof every 10 years in Florida or insure them on their own.
They do in some places, its just not news, just like when patty next door puts panels on his/her roof.. .

The best places for solar panels are roofs for parking lots, over capped trash / dumps where no building can take place, on the sides / medians of some highways where there is space for never to be used for anything else. However, chopping down trees for a solar farm is not the correct answer.