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What is something that gets a lot of hate for absolutely no reason? (midwest.social)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

True survivalist/libertarian types have always loved solar power.

I don't know how solar lost its space age coolness, though, aside from active lobbying from the fossil fuel industry to try to kill it. For awhile solar was undoubtedly the power source of the future, the same thing that was on our space probes and satellites.

I have old oil-crisis era books and magazines on my shelf which absolutely loved solar power and billed it as the cheap energy solution for the common man. Somewhere we went wrong, and I think it was Reagan (in many ways...)