Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization

by Bill McKibben

Sometime in the early part of the 2020s we crossed an invisible line where the cost of producing energy from the sun dropped below the cost of fossil fuel. That’s not yet common knowledge—we still think of photovoltaic panels and wind turbines as “alternative energy,” as if they were the Whole Foods of power, nice but pricey. In fact—and more so with each passing month—they are the Costco of energy, inexpensive and available in bulk.

For households, the trinity of efficient appliances is an electric car or bike, a heat pump—and an induction cooktop.

We have two of the three, of his suggested household "appliances"