Imagine this, your sitting in a chair outside your house watching your electric power meter. In amazement, the dials are going backwards. Your house it turns out, is producing electricity from the solar panels you have installed on its roof. A new law makes the power companies literally pay you for the electricity that you are producing. Not a payment in terms of energy credits on your utilities bill, we are talking about money, real money.
Sound good? Well its going on, of course not in the USA, but it is going on in Canada. I guess Americans don't really need this sort of thing. According to Dick Cheney, we will be increasing our consumption of oil as fuel right up until there is nary a drop of the stuff left.
Also with the sharp spikes in climate change due to global warming or as republicans like to call it "mild pollution," those multiple sub zero winter days and endless above 90 days will require gads of oil to fuel furnaces and air conditioners. I guess Americans are all set. Sorry my bad.
But if you think you might like to take a little peek at the article that describes things like a solar energy buying cooperative, try this one from the Washington Post:
Solar energy at work in Canada
Artwork by Pierre Moliner
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