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A lot of us won't be here in a few decades to look back on it. But yeah, not adjusting to change was the point I was making. Solar is basically free money, I don't understand what people couldn't (and still don't) understand about that. Especially companies that use a lot of energy like grocery stores. Fill your parking lot with solar panels giving shade and cover for inclement weather and people will be more likely to shop there plus you'd be covering most of not all of your electrical bills. Throw some on the roof to shade the building and use even less energy to cool the building and now you can sell the excess energy. THAT is common sense.
Well, businesses don’t like free, because you can’t make money on free. Greed is the problem. If we solve the greed, there would be very few problems on Earth
But that's exactly my point, is that grocery stores could be greedy and win ecologically. Emphasize the profit you can make in utilizing wasted space like roofs or parking lots and it just makes sense from a business perspective. I know I would be more likely to shop at a grocery store that had shaded parking lots, even if the real goal for it was to lower bills for higher profits. They lower their bills and get more customers, that's a two fold win for big stores.
I see. Well, the investment price for panels to reduce their own usage is significantly more than just paying the electric bill.
Initially, sure, but it winds up generating profit after it's made up the cost.
It would take many years to pay itself off, and after that it does not generate profit it just generates savings. The incentive is just not there, or everyone would be doing it.
What we need our local governments to create solar, wind, etc. power generating options and to just simply provide that power at no cost. construction would come out of taxes, just like a bridge, and it helps everyone.
Obviously that will never happen, at least in the United States.