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Originally Posted by Itse
For a lot of people worried about the environment, going off the grid doesn't need to pay for itself. It just needs to be affordable. Those people (and the usual tech geek early adopters) will be more than enough to fuel the market for the first few years.
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Why do people want to go off the grid? A reliable electric grid is one of the key pillars of modern human civilization and I certainly have no interest in making my own electricity, just like I don't want to get my own fresh water or grow all of my food.
Going off the grid is also incredibly inefficient for saving the environment, as distributed solar is significantly more costly compared to utility scale solar (which already is expensive and not well suited to actual demand).