Aurora Borealis would be nice, too...

On the other hand, wouldn’t it be nice to look out a window and actually see such a star-filled sky unpolluted by man-made light?

Believe it or not, the world is undergoing a rapid and catastrophic change due to a century of fossil fuel combustion. Non-carbon energy generation helps to buy the world some time to adjust to this change by putting off the day when greenhouse warming effects become disastrous. This is a social good of global and…

When his panels supply excess power to the local grid, the utility does not have to fire up additional generators to meet demand. Utilities give significant incentives to large institutions that keep their energy usage within certain limits during peak-demand times. My local university installed Trane ice conversion…