Engineering360: "A powerful future projected for US battery storage"

I have said it before and it makes more sense these days. The simplest method to reduce energy costs and land coverage is to install solar panels on each home. Not sufficient to over produce but sufficient to run a standard home independent of a supplier. Back this up with a small roof top wind turbine and the problem is solved for most utility suppliers.

Rather than dumping used solar panels give them to home owners for use to supplement their power needs. They have no value in a land fill site. They are written off by the company and have no tax deductable value. A few years of usage helps this idea of CO2 saving. I am sure the home owners would enjoy some cost savings in electricity.

The down side, the utilities will complain to loss of some revenue, (poor utilities), but they could claim this ridiculous CO2 tax saving and still remain profitable with the big consumers like business's who are the main culprits of CO2 production and high electricity uses that everyone worries about.

The cost to recycle panels is higher than the give-away cost, so why not install the used panels on houses. The panels still have life for home use.

If you want to save the world, one cannot have cake and eat it all. And certainly the aliens are not to interested our problem.

The alternate, wait until a hydro-thermal vent erupts from frac'ing or oil drilling, and then watch the CO2 level shoot up.