[GeronL]

Government suppresses other energy production and heavily subsidizes solar. Especially makes sense for northern Alaska where its dark 5-6 months a year.

Solar power means batteries. Batteries last 3-5 years.... I could not imagine the ecological damage from burying millions of tons of batteries each year.

The only way solar will ever make sense is if government outright bans other forms of energy and heavily subsidizies and mandates solar.

Natural gas could easily be the best alternative energy if government restrictions were lifted... and no millions of tons of batteries dumped annually.

[truth_seeker]

I still ask:

Investment too high? Saved dollars too low? If so, due to low volume of energy units saved, or low cost per unit of energy saved?

The system in the article does NOT involve batteries, nor do home and water heating with solar.