Solar panels and Homelessness in Cal

Have you seen sheepshead bay lately. How about Brighton beach where they built a giant development (though admittedly not high rises). They did build high rises in Staten Island… well kinda now they are slowly sliding into the water. That was a fun project

I guess you haven’t visited Silicon Valley lately. The traffic problem only gets worse and worse. And I suspect that’s the same elsewhere as more cars are on the road.

Your cluelessness makes me chuckle.

The first thing you need to address to fix homeless? Try JOBS that pay well above minimum wage.

Where does HUD do that?

All Trump and Gate’s money combined couldn’t bribe me into living in the bay area.

And the actual, real-world ability of me to sell my house tomorrow, buy a much newer, much larger home in Tennessee for cash and still bank $1,000,000 isn’t enough to “bribe” me to do it. I’m sure Tennessee is a very nice place to live, and yet I still don’t do this. Isn’t it great that America has such a diversity of places to live that we can both find what we like!

Oh, and no need to include Trump’s money there. Assuming that Trump’s net worth is positive - far from a given - at best, it still doesn’t amount to Bill Gates’ couch change. It must really chap Trump’s behind that Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg, Bloomberg and the like:

  • have verifiable assets more than an order of magnitude greater than his (again, assuming Trump’s net worth is even positive to begin with)
  • built their wealth from scratch without significant (if any) family gifts or loans
  • aren’t counting on a claimed and wholly arbitrary value of their name as an “asset” (see: Trump University, Trump Vodka, Trump Steaks, etc. etc. etc.).

i would love to live in teh bay area but its just not affordable for me. thats why i moved to austin int he first place. california would have been choice #1 but were happy in austin

I can agree with the last sentence.

23k or so for a 7.5 kw system but theres a 30% federal tax credit plus any other credits your utility gives.

my break even should be 11-13 years or so,ive had then for almost 4 years

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California’s solar-produced excess energy was a commodity that Cali attempted to sell, then give, away. When there were no takers, it actually paid to have it taken. This was covered in an interview on Fox last week, but was reported a year ago in an LA Times article, probably around May or June of '17.

The question that shows they know nothing about economics and thus free markets.

:rofl: I mean… what was the OP talking about???

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Why do you think there are a lot of homeless in CA?

Why do you think it’s worthwhile to put solar panels on new homes?

Hint: The answer for both is the same…good weather.

We’ve had good weather forever. When I was a kid here, homelessness was rare.

California … even LA … would be a great place to live if it had 1/100 of its population.

I bet you didn’t have all of the social programs though, did you.

@Cratic3947 you could have just poured your outrage back into this thread instead of starting a new, almost identical thread.

No, this thread has a slightly different point… Odd, you care so much.

They’re the same. At least this old one has a link and facts, the new one this morning has nothing but feeeelings for an OP.

Lol @ the edit. Thanks for admitting they are the same OP.