What do you do at night?
With 3 hours 52 minutes of daylight, and the daylight not quite making it over the trees since October, whatever the solution is has to work for about 9 months straight with no recharge. Summer, all three months of it, is not a problem to begin with even if the power goes out altogether.
Grid power. Nobody's saying to live off this alone, but at these costs the payoff time will be very fast, encouraging more people to do it. It can help reduce the need for new expensive power plants to meet needs, the need for foreign energy and pollution.
Everybody wins!
Well, except OPEC. And the econuts, they don't like to see real progress made by private firms.
What I've seen on FR is that most of us are really environmentalists. We're just not anti-corporate like those who have hijacked the environmental movement.
Move em under the street lighting?