At Nexus Media, Jeremy Deaton writes—In Brooklyn, you can now sell solar-generated electricity directly to your neighbors:
In Brooklyn, you can buy honey collected from an urban bee hive. You can buy lettuce grown atop an old bowling alley.
And now, you can purchase free range, gluten free, fresh, organic solar power right off your neighbor’s roof.
Brooklyn startup LO3 Energy is revolutionizing the way homeowners buy and sell electricity. They are making it possible to auction rooftop solar power directly to your neighbors, creating a market for home-grown clean energy.
To understand why this is such a big deal, let’s take a look at the way power utilities have historically operated. Traditionally, a centralized utility would sell electricity to numerous homes and businesses. There was one seller and many buyers.
Rooftop solar has disrupted that model. Now, in many parts of the country, you can install solar panels on your roof, generate your own power and sell the surplus power back to the grid. In this model, both you and the grid buy and sell power.
LO3 Energy goes one step further, allowing consumers to sell power directly to each other. [...]
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“There are so many ways for those in power to control someone who strays. They jealously guard their power and use it to make sure that they call the shots; they are the ones who benefit from the system. Another lesson that I learned is that if you decide to operate on the basis on your conscience, rather than your political advantage, you must be ready for the consequences and not complain when you suffer them. There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.”
~Shirley Chisholm, Unbought and Unbossed, 1970
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At Daily Kos on this date in 2004—Gooper can’t handle the burden:
We already knew this, but it's nice to get confirmation anyway.
"It's extremely difficult to govern when you control all three branches of government," says Hastert spokesman John Feehery...
Given that 60+ percent think the country is going in the wrong direction, and that every decision made the last four years has been made by Republicans, we know that they can't handle the task.
So it's time to give Democrats a shot.
Incidentally, what Feedery is really trying to say is that it's tough to place blame on Democrats for the Republicans' shortcomings when they control all three branches of government.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Greg Dworkin and Joan McCarter chronicle the progress of Trumpshambles from the Middle East into Europe. Trump leaks more NatSec secrets. The budget is out: half of it is cut and the other half is missing. John Boehner, from retirement, finally averts a shutdown.
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