Comment Re:Cable guy? (Score 2) 126
You have a large company in the cable company causing you to stay home all day (not making money) and all to often causing you to lose multiple days work. If they do show up and you aren't home they still charge you. So you pay for what you don't get. They are comparing that to all the promise to bring electricity to these regions for 50! years and it is still a no show. That is the comparison they are making.
This "Solar punk" is different in that instead of dealing with a major corporation you are dealing with a small one that comes and installs the panels and YOU are generating your own power. Your neighbours see that unlike all the promises made for GENERATIONS your private deal WORKED and show that others can do the same. Little companies working with private individuals are doing what the big companies and governments failed to accomplish.