Unlike wind and hydro, which require dealing with governments and experts, solar can be sold to anyone with enough money to buy it.

This means that there are a ton of scumbags looking to profit off of those who do not know any better by spreading misinformation and, well, any other tactic they can think of to enrich themselves further.

I’ve started thinking about this because whenever a discussion about clean energy comes up, there’s almost always “solar shills” trying to peddle rhetoric that makes solar out to be the superior option even when it clearly isn’t. I have a feeling this is because those individuals have been manipulated by businesspeople into believing and sharing falsehoods so the next time one of their salepeople tries to sell a layperson solar, said layperson is more likely to have come across some propaganda to tilt them more towards making a purchase.

Money brings out the worst in people. I unfortunately don’t hold the people in the solar industry above what I’m accusing them of, and if you’ve been convinced that solar is some kind of panacea relative to other forms of energy, it’s possible you’ve been subjected to propaganda to exploit our naivete.