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Scoundreller on April 3, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Third Phase of Clean Energy Will Be Most Disru...

Going forward, it’s simple: Charge the operations costs up-front.

IE: charge up-front for the first 5 years of expected electricity use of the device.

Then it goes against your bill over the next year.

Now everyone buys the cheaper to own+operate one without thinking.

sokoloff on April 4, 2019 [–]

That seems like it would make low income people even less likely to upgrade.

Scoundreller on April 4, 2019 | [–]

Depends on the design life of the thing. And how expensive it is to operate to begin with. And whether its even a thing that low income people would generally have in the first place.

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