[palmer]

Solar City does not make solar panels, China makes them. What Solar City does is sign people up to buy crappy Chinese panels in exchange for government and ratepayer subsidies (paid by the rest of us) that generate electricity when it is not needed, and not lowering by one iota the amount of fossil fuel used (the boilers under the generators need to stay hot for daily post solar use). The best that can be said for solar is that it is not as bad as wind.

Once the cheap solar panels have broken in about 20 years, the victims of Solar City's scam will still be on the hook for the payments.

[Real Cynic No More]

Keeping boilers hot or heating them up just before they’re needed uses less fuel than continuously making electricity. Lets not make false arguments to defend our positions. They can easily be shot down.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Then too, I would imagine Solar City gets “carbon credit” deductions on their corporate tax returns.