John Griswold
1 min readDec 17, 2021

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Nope, just net metering which leaves me dependent on the grid for a couple of winter months to fill in the gaps, not to mention nighttime. Don't get your obsession with billionaires and Al Gore...I couldn't care less about their supposed motivations or his supposed energy use, neither is relevant to the climate change problem. My system is about 3.5 KWH, and given my somewhat frugal household usage I pile up surpluses 8 or 9 months a year, which is one reason that new tech nuclear interests me.

My city and county are laid out on a N/S grid which makes many if not most buildings appropriately sited for solar collection. I expect battery technology to do nothing but improve, as will solar panels, solar paint, solar roofing, and it seems to me to be insane to spend as much as we do to throw away energy (AC in hot months), to tolerate local micro clime heating (particularly given that our summers are hot and getting hotter) and the inherently fragile nature of entire dependence on centralized generation/long distance distribution. We can do a lot better with current tech and the tech will only improve.

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John Griswold
John Griswold

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Master carpenter, watercolor artist and beat up old jock…owned by Black Lab Bo who considers two tennis balls a minimum mouthful

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