{"id":2002,"date":"2011-05-20T11:33:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T15:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/sharable-solar.html"},"modified":"2011-05-20T11:33:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T15:33:44","slug":"sharable-solar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/sharable-solar.html","title":{"rendered":"Sharable solar"},"content":{"rendered":"Beth Buczynski wrote in shareable: ecosystem 13 May 2011\nabout\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/04\/solar-mosaic-helps-you-hurdle-solar-financing.html\">\nSolar Energy Meets The Sharing Economy<\/a>:\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/04\/solar-mosaic-helps-you-hurdle-solar-financing.html\">\n<img style=\"float:right;border:none;\"\nwidth=\"245\" height=\"136\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/www.shareable.net\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog_top_image\/blog\/top-image\/solar-mosaic-energy.jpg\"><\/a>\nAlthough it&#8217;s one of the only forms of energy to offer a 100 percent\nreturn on investment, solar energy has only been adopted by about 1\npercent of the U.S. population. A recent solar energy industry report\nindicated that cost and complexity were two of the biggest reasons why\npeople are slow to invest in solar technology.\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/04\/solar-mosaic-helps-you-hurdle-solar-financing.html\">\nSolar Mosaic<\/a> brings the popular crowdfunding technique to the clean\ntech industry by developing a way for communities to create their own\nrenewable energy without going into debt.\n<\/blockquote>\nI don&#8217;t get the complexity part, since certified installers do that for you.\nBut up front cost is the hurdle pretty much everybody local mentions\nas to why they haven&#8217;t installed solar yet.\nAs I&#8217;ve mentioned before,\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/04\/solar-mosaic-helps-you-hurdle-solar-financing.html\">\nSolar Mosaic<\/a> is one answer to that.\nIt&#8217;s one way of implementing what Alden Hathaway says about\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/05\/solar-power-is-the-peoples-power-alden-hathaway.html\">solar power is the people&#8217;s power.<\/a>\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beth Buczynski wrote in shareable: ecosystem 13 May 2011 about Solar Energy Meets The Sharing Economy: Although it&#8217;s one of the only forms of energy to offer a 100 percent return on investment, solar energy has only been adopted by about 1 percent of the U.S. population. A recent solar energy industry report indicated that [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14,24,4524],"tags":[8704,2061,713,8714,8885],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-solar","category-solar-mosaic","tag-economy","tag-electricity","tag-financing","tag-solar","tag-solar-mosaic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-wi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}