An inventor who has a solar power company and some audio products told me one of the biggest dampers to solar was that it just looks different, having panels on the roof. He also said he couldn't sell his innovative audio speakers in line with how cheaply he can produce them, because in audio, people just want to pay more. Like water for lawns.

   Lawns seem to be another of these absurd forces that persist against any amount or degree of plain sense. Manipulating social discomfort and embarrassment is probably the only forceful argument, short of actual disaster.