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>>>IIRC, a federal law allows you to feed any excess power your home solar/wind generator my create back into the national grid, including running your meter backwards... i.e., the power company pays you. Is that law still active?
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>>Jerry;
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>>Yes it is - but I "do not trust them"! When solar generation becomes popular just watch the "public utilities" claim the energy from the sun as belonging to them! :)
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>You mean the same way that companies have patented specific DNA sequences (human and otherwise)? Hard to believe, but true!

And those scientists making the patents did their research using public funds. When they reached the "breakthrough" level of knowledge, they took their newly learned knowledge and split to create private companies to exploit what we paid them to learn. Such knowledge should be public domain, but Congress rewards such thievery by allowing them to steal the knowledge for fractions of a penny on the dollar and patent it. Yes sir, we have the best congress money can buy.