Aeronaut wrote: What gets swept under the rug is that solar and wind work best at the 12volt dc level, lose some kick in the translation to 120v ac, and do not scale gracefully beyond the single house level. Furthermore, it takes both types of solar (heat and electricity) plus wind to make a serious attempt at making a few bucks from net metering.
Excellent and concise summary. Very few installations are viable without “externalizing” costs; i.e., loading them onto the mass market as concealed overheads.
