Comment on Solar panels for surveillance but none for affordable power

• Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Just barely over a billion actually. We don’t have good numbers from 2017 to 2023, but from 2023 onwards they’re basically spot on 1 billion.

  Regardless, not all of that money comes from groups that should be building solar power stations, and the amount of money spent on them is not nearly on the scale required to switch the grid to green energy in a reasonable timeframe. That was the whole point, you don’t understand the financials, you don’t understand the sources. You have a valid frustration about where and how public funds are being spent, but you’re barking up the wrong tree, and you’ve picked a rather small tree at that.

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  • nexguy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t think anyone anywhere mentioned redirecting flock cameras funds would even approach switching the grid to green energy. Just a misuse of funds that could help in the goal of switching proving that governments have funds but continue to choose not to use them for solar. My town could have weatherized hundreds of homes for the cost it wasted in flock…just this year.

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    • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t think anyone anywhere mentioned redirecting flock cameras funds would even approach switching the grid to green energy.

      Couldn’t the billions have been used for solar infrastructure?

      That’s how I interpreted your statement actually. It came off to me as “the government is spending so much money on Flock when that huge sum could be used to setup a lot of solar energy generation”. The points again though, is that it’s not that much money (in comparison to other government contractors), a big chunk of it comes from private sources not public anyway, and it would be a small drop in a big bucket of money that is needed to have a meaningful effect on national solar power generation.

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