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Energy Prices Are Driving Demand for Solar Panels and Heat Pumps
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#12Interesting timing that China is ending solar panel and battery export subsidies this year. Panel I've bought 15 months ago is 20% more expensive now.
Isn’t a lot of that due to currnecy and inflation?
12 months ago 4300 yuan would cost 1000 NZD. 4400 yuan today (3% increase) would be about 1100 NZD.
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#14Interesting timing that China is ending solar panel and battery export subsidies this year. Panel I've bought 15 months ago is 20% more expensive now.
Federal tax incentives in the US are also drying up and not being renewed. Unfortunately, the same thing is happening with state incentives in California. Many of these programs ended in the beginning of this year.
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#15Electrification is a no brainer. Electricity is essentially an abstraction layer that decouples the source of energy from the consumer. Even if you want to remain 100% fossil fuel dependent, it still makes a lot more sense, outside of some industrial uses, to generate electricity with those fossil fuels and then use the electricity to power your actual device, whether it’s your air conditioning unit or your automobil…
> Electricity is essentially an abstraction layer that decouples the source of energy from the consumer.
Highly recommend a visit to Greenfield Village in Dearborn, MI. They have a belt-driven workshop that demonstrates that this abstraction/desire has existed for a very long time. Electricity is currently our best-known way to put it into practice.
PS - depending on their schedule of interactive demos, you might even be able to make something in the workshop :)
Re: Energy Prices Are Driving Demand for Solar Panels and Heat Pumps
#16Interesting timing that China is ending solar panel and battery export subsidies this year. Panel I've bought 15 months ago is 20% more expensive now.
Federal tax incentives in the US are also drying up and not being renewed. Unfortunately, the same thing is happening with state incentives in California. Many of these programs ended in the beginning of this year.
No worries! We just install our own oil wells and refineries for energy independence to take advantage of those sweet federal subsidies that have shifted back to fossil fuels.
Re: Energy Prices Are Driving Demand for Solar Panels and Heat Pumps
#17Electrification is a no brainer. Electricity is essentially an abstraction layer that decouples the source of energy from the consumer. Even if you want to remain 100% fossil fuel dependent, it still makes a lot more sense, outside of some industrial uses, to generate electricity with those fossil fuels and then use the electricity to power your actual device, whether it’s your air conditioning unit or your automobil…
> Electricity is essentially an abstraction layer that decouples the source of energy from the consumer. Highly recommend a visit to Greenfield Village in Dearborn, MI. They have a belt-driven workshop that demonstrates that this abstraction/desire has existed for a very long time. Electricity is currently our best-known way to put it into practice. PS - depending on their schedule of interactive demos, you might eve…
Running an entire workshop from a shared overhead pulley seems very akin to running individual thin-clients off a mainframe.