{"id":32289,"date":"2014-09-28T15:53:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T15:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/weve-gotten-too-wrapped-up-in-trying-to-make\/"},"modified":"2014-09-28T15:53:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T15:53:55","slug":"weve-gotten-too-wrapped-up-in-trying-to-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/weve-gotten-too-wrapped-up-in-trying-to-make\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>we\u2019ve gotten too wrapped up in trying to make solar power compete with fossil fuels, distracting us from its real advantage, which is that it\u2019s right on the roof, independent of the grid. You don\u2019t need wires, or power plants, transformers, or dispatchers. \u201cDoing away with high-voltage lines is not a Luddite view,\u201d says Perlin, \u201cIt\u2019s a futuristic one. The revolution will come as we cut down the utility lines and up with the rooftops.\u201d We\u2019ve put decades of effort into making solar conform to the grid\u2014even down to converting solar panels from DC power to AC power and then turning that AC power back to DC power for our TVs, computers, and electronics. House by house, we\u2019ve created redundant costly equipment. Perhaps what we need instead is a more contrarian viewpoint. \u201cAll our appliances are DC, trapped in an AC world,\u201d said Perlin. \u201cThe history of technology is full of these discontinuity stories.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newamerica.net\/publications\/articles\/2012\/solar_not_just_for_tinfoil_hatters_anymore_63251\"> Solar: Not Just For Tinfoil-Hatters Anymore But most of our debates about it miss the point.<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/worsethandetroit.co.uk\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">worsethandetroit<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>we\u2019ve gotten too wrapped up in trying to make solar power compete with fossil fuels, distracting us from its real advantage, which is that it\u2019s right on the roof, independent of the grid. You don\u2019t need wires, or power plants, transformers, or dispatchers. \u201cDoing away with high-voltage lines is not a Luddite view,\u201d says Perlin, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-32289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8oN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}