#solar panels retail

[da-riya]

Can't help but feel I'd fail at everything albeit it doesn't help me

[uniquesolarsolutions]

The New Energy Tech Consumer Code (NETCC) program replaces the Approved Solar Retailer (ASR) program. It is a voluntary code of conduct that seeks to raise consumer protection standards for the sale and provision of new energy tech products and services including solar PV, home batteries, EV chargers, VPPs and more. Retailers who commit to meeting the code of conduct can market themselves as New Energy Tech Approved Sellers.

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Lifespan of a Solar Panel and Do They Come with Warranties

In the ever-evolving landscape of renewable energy, solar panels have emerged as a frontrunner in powering homes and businesses across Australia. As the demand for clean and sustainable energy solutions continues to rise, many consumers are curious about the lifespan of solar panels and the assurances that come with them in the form of warranties. In this comprehensive guide, we delve into the intricacies of solar panel longevity and the significance of warranties offered by professional solar installer retailers in Australia.

Understanding the Lifespan of Solar Panels:

Solar panels are a long-term investment that provides a consistent and environmentally friendly source of energy. Typically composed of photovoltaic cells, solar panels convert sunlight into electricity, making them a vital component of any solar energy system. The lifespan of solar panels is influenced by various factors, including the quality of materials, manufacturing processes, and environmental conditions.

On average, solar panels have a lifespan of 25 to 30 years. However, advancements in technology and manufacturing practices have resulted in some panels exceeding these expectations. High-quality solar panels can maintain efficiency levels of 80% or more even after three decades of use. To ensure the longevity of your solar panels, it is essential to choose a reliable and professional solar installation company.

The Role of Professional Solar Installers in Australia:

When considering solar panels for your home or business, collaborating with professional solar installers is crucial. These experts bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the table, ensuring that your solar energy system is installed correctly and performs optimally throughout its lifespan.

Professional solar installers in Australia play a pivotal role in assessing your energy needs, designing a customized solar solution, obtaining necessary permits, and executing the installation process. Their expertise ensures that your solar panels are positioned for maximum sunlight exposure and that all components are seamlessly integrated.

Moreover, reputable solar installers often have partnerships with top-tier solar panel manufacturers, offering consumers access to cutting-edge technology and superior-quality products. These collaborations contribute to the overall reliability and efficiency of your solar energy system.

Solar Panel Warranties: Providing Peace of Mind:

One of the key considerations when investing in solar panels is the warranty provided by the manufacturer and installer. Solar panel warranties are designed to offer consumers peace of mind by guaranteeing the performance and durability of the panels over a specified period.

Warranties for solar panels typically consist of two components: the performance warranty and the product warranty.

1. Performance Warranty:

The performance warranty guarantees the efficiency of the solar panels over a specific duration, often ranging from 20 to 25 years. Manufacturers commit to a minimum level of power output during this period, ensuring that your solar panels continue to generate electricity at an optimal level. If the panels fall below the specified efficiency, the manufacturer is obligated to either replace or compensate for the underperforming panels.

2. Product Warranty:

The product warranty covers defects in materials and workmanship. It usually spans 10 to 25 years, depending on the manufacturer. If any issues arise due to manufacturing defects or faulty materials, the manufacturer will repair or replace the defective panels at no additional cost to the consumer.

Choosing the Right Solar Installer and Manufacturer:

To make the most of your solar panel investment, it's crucial to choose a professional solar installer with a solid reputation and a commitment to quality. Additionally, opt for solar panels from reputable manufacturers known for their reliability and innovation.

Researching customer reviews, asking for recommendations, and evaluating the track record of solar installation companies will help you make an informed decision. Similarly, exploring the warranties offered by different manufacturers will provide insight into the level of confidence they have in the longevity and performance of their solar panels.

In conclusion, the lifespan of a solar panel is influenced by several factors, and partnering with professional solar installers in Australia is essential for ensuring optimal performance. Solar panel warranties act as a safeguard, providing consumers with the assurance that their investment is protected. By choosing reputable installers and manufacturers, you can harness the full potential of solar energy for decades to come, contributing to a sustainable and eco-friendly future.

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How Google’s trial secrecy lets it control the coverage

I'm coming to Minneapolis! Oct 15: Presenting The Internet Con at Moon Palace Books. Oct 16: Keynoting the 26th ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing.

"Corporate crime" is practically an oxymoron in America. While it's true that the single most consequential and profligate theft in America is wage theft, its mechanisms are so obscure and, well, dull that it's easy to sell us on the false impression that the real problem is shoplifting:

https://newrepublic.com/post/175343/wage-theft-versus-shoplifting-crime

Corporate crime is often hidden behind Dana Clare's Shield Of Boringness, cloaked in euphemisms like "risk and compliance" or that old favorite, "white collar crime":

https://pluralistic.net/2021/12/07/solar-panel-for-a-sex-machine/#a-single-proposition

And corporate crime has a kind of performative complexity. The crimes come to us wreathed in specialized jargon and technical terminology that make them hard to discern. Which is wild, because corporate crimes occur on a scale that other crimes – even those committed by organized crime – can't hope to match:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/12/no-criminals-no-crimes/#get-out-of-jail-free-card

But anything that can't go on forever eventually stops. After decades of official tolerance (and even encouragement), corporate criminals are finally in the crosshairs of federal enforcers. Take National Labor Relations Board general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo's ruling in Cemex: when a company takes an illegal action to affect the outcome of a union election, the consequence is now automatic recognition of the union:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/06/goons-ginks-and-company-finks/#if-blood-be-the-price-of-your-cursed-wealth

That's a huge deal. Before, a boss could fire union organizers and intimidate workers, scuttle the union election, and then, months or years later, pay a fine and some back-wages…and the union would be smashed.

The scale of corporate crime is directly proportional to the scale of corporations themselves. Big companies aren't (necessarily) led by worse people, but even small sins committed by the very largest companies can affect millions of lives.

That's why antitrust is so key to fighting corporate crime. To make corporate crimes less harmful, we must keep companies from attaining harmful scale. Big companies aren't just too big to fail and too big to jail – they're also too big for peaceful coexistence with a society of laws.

The revival of antitrust enforcement is such a breath of fresh air, but it's also fighting headwinds. For one thing, there's 40 years of bad precedent from the nightmare years of pro-monopoly Reaganomics to overturn:

https://pluralistic.net/ApexPredator

It's not just precedents in the outcomes of trials, either. Trial procedure has also been remade to favor corporations, with judges helping companies stack the deck in their own favor. The biggest factor here is secrecy: blocking recording devices from courts, refusing to livestream the proceedings, allowing accused corporate criminals to clear the courtroom when their executives take the stand, and redacting or suppressing the exhibits:

https://prospect.org/power/2023-09-27-redacted-case-against-amazon/

When a corporation can hide evidence and testimony from the public and the press, it gains broad latitude to dispute critics, including government enforcers, based on evidence that no one is allowed to see, or, in many cases, even describe. Take Project Nessie, the program that the FTC claims Amazon used to compel third-party sellers to hike prices across many categories of goods:

https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/amazon-used-secret-project-nessie-algorithm-to-raise-prices-6c593706

Amazon told the press that the FTC has "grossly mischaracterize[d]" Project Nessie. The DoJ disagrees, but it can't say why, because the Project Nessie files it based its accusations on have been redacted, at Amazon's insistence. Rather than rebutting Amazon's claim, FTC spokesman Douglas Farrar could only say "We once again call on Amazon to move swiftly to remove the redactions and allow the American public to see the full scope of what we allege are their illegal monopolistic practices."

It's quite a devastating gambit: when critics and prosecutors make specific allegations about corporate crimes, the corporation gets to tell journalists, "No, that's wrong, but you're not allowed to see the reason we say it's wrong."

It's a way to work the refs, to get journalists – or their editors – to wreathe bold claims in endless hedging language, or to avoid reporting on the most shocking allegations altogether. This, in turn, keeps corporate trials out of the public eye, which reassures judges that they can defer to further corporate demands for opacity without facing an outcry.

That's a tactic that serves Google well. When the company was dragged into court by the DoJ Antitrust Division, it demanded – and received – a veil of secrecy that is especially ironic given the company's promise "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful":

https://usvgoogle.org/trial-update-9-22

While this veil has parted somewhat, it is still intact enough to allow the company to work the refs and kill disfavorable reporting from the trial. Last week, Megan Gray – ex-FTC, ex-DuckDuckGo – published an editorial in Wired reporting on her impression of an explosive moment in the Google trial:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/03/not-feeling-lucky/#fundamental-laws-of-economics

According to Gray, Google had run a program to mess with the "semantic matching" on queries, silently appending terms to users' searches that caused them to return more ads – and worse results. This generated more revenue for Google, at the expense of advertisers who got billed to serve ads that didn't even match user queries.

Google forcefully disputed this claim:

https://twitter.com/searchliaison/status/1709726778170786297

They contacted Gray's editors at Wired, but declined to release all the exhibits and testimony that Gray used to form her conclusions about Google's conduct; instead, they provided a subset of the relevant materials, which cast doubt on Gray's accusations.

Wired removed Gray's piece, with an unsigned notice that "WIRED editorial leadership has determined that the story does not meet our editorial standards. It has been removed":

https://www.wired.com/story/google-antitrust-lawsuit-search-results/

But Gray stands by her piece. She admits that she might have gotten some of the fine details wrong, but that these were not material to the overall point of her story, that Google manipulated search queries to serve more ads at the expense of the quality of the results:

https://twitter.com/megangrA/status/1711035354134794529

She says that the piece could and should have been amended to reflect these fine-grained corrections, but that in the absence of a full record of the testimony and exhibits, it was impossible for her to prove to her editors that her piece was substantively correct.

I reviewed the limited evidence that Google permitted to be released and I find her defense compelling. Perhaps you don't. But the only way we can factually resolve this dispute is for Google to release the materials that they claim will exonerate them. And they won't, though this is fully within their power.

I've seen this playbook before. During the early months of the pandemic, a billionaire who owned a notorious cyberwarfare company used UK libel threats to erase this fact from the internet – including my own reporting – on the grounds that the underlying research made small, non-material errors in characterizing a hellishly complex financial Rube Goldberg machine that was, in my opinion, deliberately designed to confuse investigators.

Like the corporate crimes revealed in the Panama Papers and Paradise Papers, the gambit is complicated, but it's not sophisticated:

Make everything as complicated as possible;

Make everything as secret as possible;

Dismiss any accusations by claiming errors in the account of the deliberately complex arrangements, which can't be rectified because the relevant materials are a secret.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/09/working-the-refs/#but-id-have-to-kill-you

My next novel is The Lost Cause, a hopeful novel of the climate emergency. Amazon won't sell the audiobook, so I made my own and I'm pre-selling it on Kickstarter!

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[mariacallous]

If there's one word on your mind this week, it's probably tariffs. Last week, President Trump announced sweeping tariffs on foreign goods imported into the US, setting the stage for a global trade war and stoking fears of a recession. A blanket 10 percent tariff on all imports kicked off on Saturday, April 5, with additional reciprocal tariffs on 60 countries to take effect by April 9.

It's a wildly dynamic situation that's changing by the day, but you might wonder how this affects you. The first thing to know is that tariffs are paid by the company importing a product into the country. In short, that fee affects their bottom line, so companies often pass those costs on to consumers by increasing the price of the goods.

Here's an example from Jason Miller, a professor of supply chain management at Michigan State University: Let’s say a laptop costs $400 at import in the US. A retailer would then add an average gross margin rate of 30 percent—how much revenue the retailer retains after deducting the cost to produce or acquire the item—and that laptop will now cost $571. That's the price you'll pay at a big box store.

China exports a lot of laptops to the US, and as of April 9, you'll have to factor in the 104 percent tariff, according to the latest figures. Based on historical data that suggests 95 percent of the tariff is absorbed by the importer, the import price jumps by $395 to $795, and if the retailer passes those costs to you, the new total you'll pay at the store is $966. That represents 69 percent inflation, and the retailer's gross margin rate is lowered to 18 percent. Basically, you pay more, and the retailer earns less.

Every country has been affected by Trump's tariff salvo. While many product categories will likely see prices rise, electronics is a big one. "There’s not any major electronics-producing nation that’s not substantially affected by tariffs," Miller says, including Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan, and India. He believes tariffs will be negotiated for many countries, but expects the tariffs on China to stay.

That will heavily impact the prices of goods like smartphones, laptops, and video game consoles. Smartphones are the largest import from China, with laptops sitting in second. Miller says it's important for consumers to understand that while there were tariffs on some goods from China before, there were zero tariffs on electronics like smartphones and laptops as of January 2025.

His advice? If you were planning on upgrading your laptop, tablet, or smartphone soon—maybe the battery is lackluster or it's just too old—do it now. “Buy it now. Do not wait, it makes no sense to do that,” he says. You likely won't see prices rise for a few months as companies have stocked up on goods ahead of the impending trade war, but if nothing changes in the coming weeks, Miller expects to see prices soar starting in June or July.

Miller rattled off various categories outside of electronics that would also be affected, specifically from China, which is the second largest source of imports to the US behind Mexico:

Furniture

Shoes and apparel

Microwave ovens

Silverware, plates

Blinds, linens, and curtains

Toys

Solar panels

Building materials, like vinyl flooring

Cashews

Candles

Fans

Air conditioner parts

Golf clubs

Exercise equipment

Keyboards

Auto parts

Christmas ornaments and Home Decor

Toilets

Food blenders

Seafood

Outside of higher prices, Miller says consumers should expect less product variety. “What importers are going to do is they're only going to import their most profitable, best-selling items for which they know they can still make a profit under these tariff regimes.” Apple will still import its iPhones, but a smaller smartphone maker that doesn't sell many units of a specific model may skip the US market entirely. It will also negatively impact any product where there's already a lot of consumer sensitivity to price increases.

How Are Companies Reacting?

A few companies have already made tariff-related announcements on their products. Nintendo canceled the original April 9 preorder date for the Switch 2 video game console and has yet to provide a new date, though its June 5 launch window hasn't changed.

Jaguar Land Rover Automotive is pausing auto shipments to the US this month. And Framework, known for making repairable laptops, is also pausing sales on a few models of its base Framework Laptop 13. Razer seems to have paused direct sales of its laptops in the US, though the company hasn't responded to our request for comment. Fujifilm announced a new Instax 41 camera today, but says it “has not yet determined the camera's pricing for the US market.”

WIRED reached out to more than 70 companies, from electronics manufacturers to coffee companies, asking if they could share any details about potential price increases on imported products. The vast majority, like Garmin, Oura, Amazon, Logitech, OnePlus, and Steelcase, declined to comment, while others said it was too early to discuss pricing. Still, some companies responded.

Photograph: Julian Chokkattu

Popular home office furniture brand, Branch, says it has been preparing for trade policy changes for some time, finding efficiencies in its supply chain to absorb the impact of tariffs with minimal increases to pricing. The company says there's a lot of uncertainty: “Candidly, we may need to adjust some prices in the coming months, particularly for products sourced from countries where tariff rates came in significantly higher than we anticipated.” Branch says if there is a price change, it will be to protect margins rather than to expand them. It's worth noting that Branch's Ergonomic Chair, long recommended in WIRED's Best Office Chairs guide, used to be $339 but is now $359, though Branch says the price was adjusted before tariffs were announced.

Drip coffee maker Moccamaster says it may absorb “some short-term pressures at the US level," though it's too early to confirm whether prices will increase. Portland-based coffee machine maker Ratio says it's holding prices steady through April, but “tariffs this high will unequivocally compel higher retail prices—potentially much higher. We are a small business that was already struggling with increasing costs.”

Moment, which makes camera bags and photo equipment, says it will increase prices on “most items” by $5 to $10 next week, though the company says some prices will stay the same and some will go down. “Unfortunately, these tariffs make it impossible for us to continue without cheapening the quality, laying off the team, or forcing our mom-and-pop suppliers out of business,” the company says in a newsletter it sent out to subscribers.

Supernote, a company that makes digital notebooks, pointed to a statement it made on Reddit. It's implementing a price increase in the US by the end of April: “We are actively adjusting our supply chain to mitigate the long-term impact of these tariffs," the company says on Reddit. ”These adjustments take time, especially with the new tariffs hitting everything from people to penguins, which makes the situation more complicated. It's going to be a tough time."

The company behind smart bird feeders from brands like Harymor and Sehmua, says it's exploring strategies to absorb costs internally, with no price adjustments—"We are facing rising expenses that directly affect our profit margins. … We recognize the competitive nature of the market and the price sensitivity of our customers."

Meanwhile, Samsung hasn't responded to our request for comment yet, but the company told Reuters the tariffs don't affect its TVs as much since most are produced in Mexico.

We'll keep adding information from brands as we receive it. While it's too early to make a definitive statement on an ever-evolving situation, we can probably expect higher prices on almost everything if the tariff situation remains unchanged. The last thing we want is for everyone to panic buy, but if you need a new phone, a mechanical keyboard, or an air purifier, you should probably start looking now.

[anonymusbosch]

idk, a lot of the time CA housing politics are like

right-auth: it should be illegal to be poor next to my ranch house

staunch environmentalists: if we build housing on this one patch of rare moss i will commit seppuku

misguided journalists: we should do everything we can at any cost to make sure every building is maximally earthquake-safe [implicitly: even if that means spending billions upon billions of dollars to retrofit buildings of a construction type which has never actually failed in an earthquake, at the cost of not using that money to e.g. build new safe housing or feed people]

local mayor: we've made it easier to build affordable housing by accelerating the permitting process from 2 years to 1.6 years for construction with at least 20% affordable units between 17th and 21st street if the neighbors all say it's ok, no one has solar panels, and no groundhogs on the lot see their shadows when disturbed by construction equipment

developers: we are excited to announce the opening of a new 4-over-1 luxury apartment complex where the apartments aren't big or laid out sensibly but they DO have smart fridges, smart light switches, a rent payment system that harvests your data, and ground-floor retail (bespoke reclaimed-wood furniture store, very walkable)

silicon valley: we've invented a new cheap housing with automated construction enabled by AI and the cloud to bring affordable housing to everyone. by making... prefab ADUs. it's the tesla of housing. no we haven't talked to anyone who works in construction why do you ask. mobile home? rv? what's that

someone on twitter: the solution is firebombing walmart and revolution

local news outlet: PROGRESS! 247 units of housing approved for construction! [California is, by some measures, 3.5 million units short.]

[queer-crip-grows]

Right-to-buy council houses without specifically only releasing housing that already had a replacement built was of the most notable ways of the *many* that Thatcher et al screwed the UK.

I’d love to have a law put in place that landlords either have to sign contracts to provide housing under council house-type contracts with rent controls to people on housing benefit etc, or sell to the local council at compulsory purchase prices.

Same for all the houses not being lived in - use to house people under contractual controls, or have to sell to the council housing central fund.

Personally I’d start converting all the office units that are no longer needed because so many people are working remotely now into housing too.

Same for the huge city centre shops - I’m not sure if the pattern repeats elsewhere, but I live near Glasgow and the city centre has basically died since Covid. No one is renting the huge retail stores and the place is full of unhoused folk, which is a fucking scandal. So convert them into housing; let the buildings see use, and let those folks get off the streets. Pets and kids specifically allowed too - get families out of one-room shelters and into proper homes of their own.

I’ve heard that there would be issues putting in water infrastructure, but given the place is literally crumbling already and usage in so many areas is so low that having workers digging up the streets to install water lines wouldn’t cause enormous disruption, the time to do this is *now*. Build rainwater catchment and purification systems on roofs too - we get so much rain in the UK it’s kind of ridiculous not to use it! Some of that could go directly to drip irrigation in gardens, but plenty could go right into the houses/flats too. And of course this would provide tons of jobs in construction, architecture, planning etc etc.

Install gardens and green spaces around the place while you are doing this - offer some at low rent, or to buy cheaply, to market gardeners, but specifically put spaces in for communal gardens with the idea of offering allotments and encouraging people to grow their own food.

Put solar panels on every roof and integrate spaces for smaller wind turbines amongst the houses too. Huge storage batteries in basements to make the new blocks as low-footprint and self-sufficient as possible power-wise.

It would be a *fantastic* opportunity to create genuinely accessible housing - office buildings and shops already have lifts and wide corridors ideal for wheelchairs and other mobility devices, so keep that in the design when creating housing. There is a hidden epidemic of houselessness amongst disabled people and older folk with mobility needs, so create low-rent council housing that specifically fits those needs there.

It would regenerate the areas - all the smaller shopfronts not suitable for housing conversion would fill up with people offering the things people in residential neighbourhoods need, with a guaranteed payer base. People on low incomes *use* all of their incomes on necessities, so small businesses selling those necessities will do well. Offer small businesses low rents to provide those necessities. Any that don’t fill up, offer to charities and use for council staff offering the aid and advice people transitioning into housing actually *need*.

Carers are generally low-paid - so this would be an opportunity to offer them cheap housing close to a huge client base in the new accessible housing. No need for low-paid, mostly-female workers to dash constantly between clients in cars. They could walk to work and walk in between clients, who would also no longer be trapped in inaccessible homes, so people who are not actually bedbound would hopefully be less housebound.

Put rooms in the blocks for communal and co-op activities to reduce isolation - with the lifts and wide corridors, even people who are functionally housebound are likely to be able to make it to a room in their own building, and even quite young children could get to those places safely on their own if their parents are working. Wraparound childcare, paid and informal, near where folks actually live.

City centre areas that are now largely dead other than unhoused people, with limited and decreasing zero economic activity taking place and a decreasing incentive for businesses to set up there rather than in out-of-town retail parks people need to drive to, would become vibrant communities with every incentive for businesses to set up there, particularly for the small businesses that still employ the majority of people.

It wouldn’t take a lot to extend this model to transform those out-of-town business parks that are currently largely empty either; nothing says the businesses that are still there would need to move, and they would have a huge new pool of potential employees living within easily walkable distance, though there would need to be oversight to make sure places like Amazon didn’t attempt to buy them up and turn them into company housing. There would need to be a little more investment to provide green transport links like electric buses and trains so that it would be easier for small businesses to move in to provide services, but given the tax income that would result and the reduction in pollution the investment would probably pay itself back within a decade or so.

[baitalmaha]

Container houses in Dubai

There are new things around such as Dubai container houses that have quickly started to become a great option and solution for many as an innovative quick and cost effective and eco-friendly houses. The demand for sustainable architecture is on the rise in the city, space efficient solution to the growing problem of urban density.

These homes are made of recycled steel shipping containers, which are long-lasting and can be easily moved. Because they are so customizable, they can go from simple projects like a studio up to fancy multi-container villas. All it takes is ISO-Wall insulation (for the walls, floor and roof) and an air-conditioning system to make containers perfectly appropriate for Dubai's hot desert climate.

Affordability is one of the main reasons people go for container houses in Dubai. They are much cheaper to build and maintain than conventional villas or flats. They’re also faster to build — sometimes finished in a few weeks — saving time and money.

They are also perfect for eco-conscious residents. They minimize the amount of construction waste they produce, and many use solar panels, rainwater collection systems and energy-efficient appliances to lower their footprint. In a city like Dubai where green building practices are gaining ground, container houses fit with the UAE’s sustainability vision.

And another key benefit is mobility and flexibility. Since these dwellings are portable, container homes can be placed anywhere, making them the perfect solution for temporary housing, site offices, or even off-grid living. These days there are many companies that are offering turn-key container houses, Dubai residents can buy with sleek interiors, modern finishes, and smart home features.

From a small dream home to a boutique container hotel or a pop-up retail space, container houses in Dubai list a variety of design options and specialize in flexibility, enabling you to take your dream to the next level. They’re not merely a trend—they’re the future of smart urban living in the UAE

[losunsmarttechnology]

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[sunsolaraus]

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[master-john-uk]

My farm has never (to date) attempted to grow salad, or greenhouse crops on a large scale... but it is an idea we are investigating, along with several ideas.

These salad crops are grown in vertically stacked trays (resulting in less land use), in a climate-controlled environment and under artificial light, meaning production can continue year-round. Apparently this method uses 90% less water than growing salads in a greenhouse.

With the anaerobic digestor and rooftop solar panels, my farm is self-sufficient for electricity from a renewable source... cow poo! I am awaiting data on how much electricity these vertical growing units would consume.

With Dorset County Councils strange views on environmental issues, I doubt we would get planning permission for a large expanse of greenhouses. But these vertical growing units would be low-level buildings, and would not have a detrimental "visual impact" on the environment... the reason they declined permission for us to erect a wind turbine.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Matt Wuerker

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

November 2, 2023

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

NOV 3, 2023

In a speech yesterday in Northfield, Minnesota, President Joe Biden explained his economic vision to rural Americans. “Over the past 40 years or so, we’ve had a practice in America—an economic practice called trickle-down economics, and it hit rural America especially hard,” he said. “It hollowed out Main Street, telling farmers the only path to success was to get big or get out.” At the same time, he said, “[t]ax cuts for big corporations encouraged companies to grow bigger and bigger, move jobs and production overseas for cheaper labor, and undercut local small businesses. Meat-producing companies and the retail grocery chains consolidated, leaving farmers [and] ranchers with few choices about where to sell their products, reducing their bargaining power. Corporations that sell seed, fertilizer, and even farm equipment used their outsized market power to change farmers and charge them and ranchers unfair prices.”

Biden noted that the U.S. has lost more than 400,000 family farms in the past 40 years, an area of more than 140 million acres of farmland, equivalent to an area the size of Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota combined. Family farms have failed, and as they did so, small businesses, hospitals, schools, and communities also suffered. 

Young people feel they have no choice but to leave home “in search of good-paying jobs and a chance at the American Dream.” 

Biden explained that his plan to invest in America would create new and better markets and new income streams to help rural areas thrive. He noted that $20 billion of the Inflation Reduction Act will go to helping farmers and ranchers adjust to climate change by changing cover crops and managing nutrients and grazing, while urging farmers to diversify from single crops and sell in local markets. 

Biden emphasized that the administration is promoting competition in agricultural markets, noting that currently just four big corporations control more than half the market in beef, pork, and poultry. If just one of their processing plants goes offline, it can cause massive supply chain disruptions (as the closing of a baby formula plant did in 2022). “[T]here’s something wrong,” he said, “when just 7% of the American farms get nearly 90% of the farm income.” 

In addition to the existing national investments in power grids and broadband that will help rural communities, Biden announced $1 billion to fix aging rural infrastructure systems like electricity, water, and waste water systems that haven’t been updated in decades; $2 billion to help farmers fight climate change; $145 million for clean energy technologies like solar panels that will help lower electric bills; and $274 million for rural high-speed internet expansion.

The administration’s vision for rural America appears to be part of a larger vision for restoring competition to the U.S. economy and thus is closely tied to the administration’s push to break up monopolies. In July 2021, Biden promised to interpret antitrust laws in the way they had been understood traditionally, not as the U.S. government began to interpret them in the 1980s. Then, following the argument advanced by the solicitor general of the United States at the time, Robert Bork, the government concluded that economic consolidation was fine so long as it promoted economic efficiencies that, at least in the short term, cut costs for consumers. 

Biden vowed to return to the traditional understanding of antitrust principles championed by presidents all the way back to Theodore Roosevelt at the turn of the last century, arguing that protecting economic competition protects workers, promotes innovation, and keeps consumer prices down. To that, the coronavirus pandemic added an awareness of the need to protect supply chains. 

“Bidenomics is just another way of saying ‘the American Dream,’” Biden said. “Forty years ago, trickle-down economics limited the dream to those at the top. But I believe every American willing to work hard should be able to get a job, no matter where they live—in the heartland, in small towns—to raise their kids on a good paycheck and keep their roots where they grew up.” 

In contrast to Biden’s outreach to farmers, House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is facing a dilemma over the nation’s next farm bill, which must be passed by the end of the year. According to Clark Merrefield of The Journalist’s Resource, Congress usually debates and renews the farm bill every five years, and the last one passed in 2018. 

Farm bills include price support for farm products, especially corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, rice, peanuts, dairy, and sugar. It also includes crop insurance, conservation programs, and a wide variety of other agricultural programs, making the farm bill hugely popular in rural areas that focus on farming. 

Also included in the measure are nutritional programs for low-income Americans, such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps. SNAP serves 41 million low-income Americans, but as a member of the far-right Republican Study Committee, Johnson called for cutting SNAP benefits. Now his far-right colleagues are echoing his position, saying that the need to renew the farm bill is a great opportunity to make significant cuts to SNAP, especially since the farm bill is expected to bear a price tag of more than $1 trillion for the first time in our history. 

“I can’t imagine the Mike Johnson that we know would pass up the opportunity to secure as many conservative wins as possible in this farm bill,” a Republican aide told Meredith Lee Hill of Politico, “[a]nd that means serious SNAP reforms.” 

But even some Republicans—primarily those who hail from agricultural states—object to loading the farm bill up with the poison pill of SNAP cuts, knowing such a tactic would repel Democrats, whose votes will be necessary to pass the measure as far-right Republicans balk. 

It will take a deft hand to get the measure through Congress, and its failure at Johnson’s hands will infuriate hard-hit rural areas. It is one more thing to add to the new speaker’s to-do list, as the deadline for funding the government is looming. The continuing resolution funding the government at 2023 levels, the measure that cost Representative Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) his speakership, expires in just over two weeks, on November 17.

Johnson’s willingness to load bills with poison pills that his conference likes showed today in the House’s passage of Republicans’ aid bill for Israel—Ukraine aid had been cut away—along with dramatic cuts to funding the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), a provision that the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office warned would add to the deficit rather than reducing it. Knowing that the measure will not pass the Senate, a number of Democrats voted for it, likely to avoid attacks from conservative opponents. 

Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) says the Senate won’t even take up the House bill. Instead, the Senate continues to work on its own strongly bipartisan bill that ties together aid to Israel and Ukraine. 

As Kate Riga of Talking Points Memo put it, if the Senate continues to work in this bipartisan way, we will continue to see the same pattern we’ve seen throughout this Congress: “Senate Democrats, Senate Republicans and House Democrats all supporting more or less the same thing, with a chunk of House Republicans out on a branch alone.”

After an angry fight last night over Senator Tommy Tuberville’s (R-AL) holds on military promotions, in which Republican senators joined Democrats in confronting him, the Senate today confirmed General David Allvin to be Air Force chief of staff and Admiral Lisa Franchetti as chief of naval operations, by votes of 95 to 1. Franchetti is the first woman to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Wednesday’s fight appears to have been prompted by the hospitalization of acting Marines Commandant General Eric Smith after an apparent heart attack. Smith was holding down two high-level positions at once owing to Tuberville’s holds, and he had warned his schedule was “not sustainable.” Although the Pentagon says Tuberville is endangering national security, Tuberville insists that his hold on almost 400 military promotions is not hurting the military. 

The new additions mean there are no vacancies on the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the first time since July. 

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

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Food Coin

Let me talk about how a new system of food currency *could work*. If it was owned and regulated by the government.

Each local area would be in control of a mining node that was responsible for minting, in the U.S. this would be local areas like cities. States would have the authority to authorize a new minting location. And the Fed would have the responsibility of legislating standard operating procedures.

I won't go into the specifics, that's for crypto specialists. And yea, this will be more centralized out of necessity to keep local food local.

The farmers would get initial subsidies, the coin can be used to purchase seed, farming equipment, fertilizer. In this example, I'm ignoring farming conglomerates, this is specifically for small farmers. (Like how solar panel owners can sell electricity to the grid.)

Food Coin will be used to create an economy around food and production of food.

One of the problems with WIC and Food stamps is that they can only be used to purchase certain food items. And what really makes people embarrassed with using them, is going to a store that also sells food that isn't covered by them.

So there will need to be a separation of store fronts. To authorized food retailers. This will create job and employment opportunities, since there is now a separation of food and everything else.

The question is, how do farmers and these storefronts make a profit? And how do we control food flation?

Since everybody gets food coin, it'll be limited on a weekly basis per person, which will need a nation infrastructure (more Jobs) to control for identity and food purchases. Food won't be limited to be purchased with food coin, but every citizen will have a food coin stipend.

The restriction is that they need an electronic devices and social security number.

States and cities will be required to identify food deserts and attempt to place fronts where they are needed most.

Farmers and Storefronts will get to keep the Food Coin they make, and convert it into the national currency (digitally).

There will be no authorization of food coin/USD exchange, so you can't purchase or sell the currency and affect inflation of the coin.

Alternatively, Farmers and StoreFronts can use their proceeds to purchase food, stock, or equipment before taxes. And the Converting from food to USD will include a tax.

Farmers and StoreFronts will be required to convert excess revenue at the end of every month. So they won't fall behind on taxes, or affect the food coin's self-contained ecosystem.

This will allow for farmers, restaurateurs, and delivery personnel to work out of the same ecosystem, and therefore allow the breaking apart of the nation's food-conomy from other economies, such as oil or technology. As much as one can anyway.

This also means that every citizen worker will be working for something more than survival. Instead of stagnating technological development at survival only.

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P.S.Most people do not know that the sale, transportation and production of the fossil fuel needed for ICE vehicles requires a huge amount of electricity...