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All the electricity you'll need for 40 years

A hopeful dispatch from the solarpunk frontier 🌞

Guaranteed to still have 90% of their capacity in 40 years, they’ll cover all our household energy needs—powering our kitchen, heating our water, charging our electric car— for the rest of our lives. Back then, renewables were for a fringe group of hippies, auto manufacturers' only innovation was increasing the size of gas guzzlers, and the government seemed to only intervene on behalf of corporations destroying the environment. Couldn't we do more by living in an apartment with all the modern amenities, outsourcing our food, utilities, and shelter to others so we can focus on building something that helps a greater proportion of people?

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