03-13-2014, 10:04 AM
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Originally posted by Jay Bondesen
Somehow I don't think forcing every grocery store, gas station, fire department, hospital, telephone company, and auto shop, to run on generators would be an improvement. Storage systems just aren't quite there yet to operate them 24/7 using just the sun. I wonder what those services would cost without the grid? You also have to wonder what the tax base would be if there were no grid. Who would visit, live, or open a business to pay taxes? What kind of subsidies could it pay for?
Jay
This isn't true, steve linked a system built in 1994 by humboldt state university that split water using solar panels and stored the hydrogen in tanks. This system had incredible output and was reasonably affordable.
(See: http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/h2homesystem.pdf )
It's not that the technology isn't available, its corporate private interest in collusion with legislative exhange councils that force our governments policy down our throats and keep everyone reliant on fossil fuel technologies. Misinformation and a general lack of a credible outlet for any new innovations keeps the status quo.