{"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":"<p>Beth Buczynski wrote in shareable: ecosystem 13 May 2011<br \/>\nabout<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/04\/solar-mosaic-helps-you-hurdle-solar-financing.html\"><br \/>\nSolar Energy Meets The Sharing Economy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/04\/solar-mosaic-helps-you-hurdle-solar-financing.html\"><br \/>\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><br \/>\nAlthough it&#8217;s one of the only forms of energy to offer a 100 percent<br \/>\nreturn on investment, solar energy has only been adopted by about 1<br \/>\npercent of the U.S. population. A recent solar energy industry report<br \/>\nindicated that cost and complexity were two of the biggest reasons why<br \/>\npeople are slow to invest in solar technology.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/04\/solar-mosaic-helps-you-hurdle-solar-financing.html\"><br \/>\nSolar Mosaic<\/a> brings the popular crowdfunding technique to the clean<br \/>\ntech industry by developing a way for communities to create their own<br \/>\nrenewable energy without going into debt.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t get the complexity part, since certified installers do that for you.<br \/>\nBut up front cost is the hurdle pretty much everybody local mentions<br \/>\nas to why they haven&#8217;t installed solar yet.<br \/>\nAs I&#8217;ve mentioned before,<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/04\/solar-mosaic-helps-you-hurdle-solar-financing.html\"><br \/>\nSolar Mosaic<\/a> is one answer to that.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s one way of implementing what Alden Hathaway says about<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/05\/solar-power-is-the-peoples-power-alden-hathaway.html\">solar power is the people&#8217;s power.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"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"],"_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}]}}