Hi Plato.
Thanks for sharing DOW's new rooftop solar power offering. Before you know it, solar collector and p-v technologies will become entirely invisible to the naked eye. What, with all the paint-ons, roll-ons, the embedded capabilities of shingles, and now even polymer fiber-optic strands that channel light (as recently discussed in #msg-26064120). Once p-v installations become invisible the next environmental challenge (and you can bet your bottom dollar, the next marketectural push, as well) will be to devise new methods of disposing all of the then-extant p-v installations that were installed to date using by-then ancient-seeming surface-mounted panels, grids rotators, etc., and other visually obtrusive and aesthetically unappealing approaches.
I suspect that these eventualities and their underlying dynamics are already accounted for in the more forward-looking purveyors' strategic planning activities and product roadmaps, which are the ultimate cookbooks that contain all the necessary recipes for planned obsolescence. A decade ago standard time was said to be replaced by Internet Time, namely by using a ~ seven-fold acceleration factor. It's beginning appear there will be something similar here to characterize green time. It could be something really simple, such as the time difference between the horizon stipulated in a government tax incentive program's terms and conditions, and the time that the horizon's distance is ultimately reduced or rescinded entirely.
I could go on, but I'm already into my 15th minute of edit time (or quickly approaching my 3rd minute, if counting in green time units).
FAC
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