And you also mess up MY air.
Fossil fuel has in the form of carbon emission a long term cost and coal has the highest of them all.

Uhhh, There's only one Linux kernel and that's what you were comparing, kernels.
But I do agree with you that the Linux community could do a lot better in vetting source code for vulnerabilities.
But by lack of an itch and/or pay it's going to be hard to find competent analysts.

Ah yes :)

How many are today available to run iOS?

Mass is more important than hardness.

Have a look at the latest Unity, it has come a looong way and just works.

Personally I'm a Kubuntu man and indeed running this shiny KDE5.3 :)

God am I glad I don't have your sight deficiency :)

Was nice but KDE4 is much more complete and KDE5 still better.

It's just not ready for prime-time.

It's about the same in The Netherlands, 50-50 between electricity and gas.

The climatic differences with Colorado are significant, a home AC is a rare thing in The Netherlands.
Most Dutch homes will use a similar amount of energy in the form of gas for heating and cooking so we can double the OP's number to 7000 kWh/annum.
Because of interest in PV for my own place (I use less than 1500 kWh/year) I had a look around and found this site bidgely.com, they can log your power consumption, analyse it and compare it to others.

The software they use is trained on US consumption and doesn't work for European homes, as an example a typical US freezer consumes 300 Watts, a European one consumes 100 Watts.

Having frequently travelled the US and other hot & cold places I can say the US can save a hell of a lot by insulating.
Take Denmark as an example, per building code you have to have a minimum of 30cms (12") of insulation in the roof and floor, a little less in the walls and it really makes a difference!

Yes there is an increasing problem with matching local (north) excess wind power and a potential market for it in the south.
But that doesn't mean the same isn't going to happen with solar, luckily PV is spread out all over but weather can over a few hundred kms be quite different.
The connection of PV to the grid is also regulated via the Voltage, regulations allow a fluctuation of 10%, as soon as that 255V barrier is reached the PV plant has to throttle or even switch of.

That's one reason I've put in bigger wires for my own, to keep the Voltage as low as practically possible and continue output for the maximum.
For me it's only a 50mtrs stretch (x2!) but I already gain some 5 Volts, for the power company with kilometers to the next transformer it is standard proper engineering practice.

Looks like you don't understand the concept of a meter that runs -backward-.

Join a co-op, buy or rent some space and install a large PV plant, share the returns.

Now make sure your internal walls are stone or concrete and can store the coolness, have a significant insulation (12 inches) on the outside and the house will stay cool all night.

Yep get off the grid :)
Then, to increase reliability you lay (string in the US) some lines to your neighbours and don't have a problem if one of your generators or batteries is out for maintenance.
Oh wait, that starts sounding like a grid...