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Trump Says He Wants No Wind Turbines Built During Administration (www.bloomberg.com)

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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There are designs intended for installation on urban buildings, but so far, they've not proved to be a more cost-effective spend than rooftop solar; there are really huge economies of scale which generally mean that it makes more sense to have community ownership of one big turbine somewhere.

[–] Pronell@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, I have considered solar. Need to get estimates for that. Ours is an old house, and is ideally angled/situated for the sun rather than the street. The rooftop might be perfect. (Back when this house was built, it was alongside a river that has been redirected. Now the road it's on it built on that old riverbed.)

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago

I'd go into it with a plan for the following:

retrofit insulation & windows
replace gas heating with a heat pump
electrical system upgrades
Solar
storage battery