@DemonSixOne @fluffy @cjd @nanook

> southern California

The San Francisco occupiers have seized control of the sun in California. You may not run a solar array unless you are selling power back to the grid. So you would be able to run one to avoid brownouts, but they want the brownouts (get a good UPS). So you sell electricity to the grid. Homeowners don't have a huge reason to install them, and most people are renting anyway so the person that pays the power bill and the person that pays the property tax are not the same guy, so the incentives are misaligned.

So, you know, Antarctica. If you could do something without NIMBYs, it's Antarctica. They use diesel generators for the most part: they have some solar panels and some wind turbines, but for most of their power, they use diesel.