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How to solve climate change and make life more awesome

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Solar on Your Rooftop Is the Cheapest Energy

In America today, the cost of installing solar on your rooftop is about $3.20 a watt. In Australia, however, deregulated the the utilities in the solar industry and then provided training programs to lower the cost of installation. So you take Australian solar, this cheaper, you take American or California electric vehicle policy, which is already cheaper,. And then high efficiency homes and particularly the heat pumps of Northern Europe and Germany, that's how you electrify the housing fleet is cost effective. How do we scale up so that we're putting this into 100 million homes in the next decade?

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