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The RECs allow their buyer to claim that their electricity comes from that specific source, even though all sources feed into the vast pool of the [[electrical grid]] and every user on that grid gets their electricity from the same mix of sources. | The RECs allow their buyer to claim that their electricity comes from that specific source, even though all sources feed into the vast pool of the [[electrical grid]] and every user on that grid gets their electricity from the same mix of sources. | ||
RECs are obviously worthless, a blatant monetization of “[[wikipedia:Virtue_signalling|virtue | RECs are obviously worthless, a blatant monetization of “[[wikipedia:Virtue_signalling|virtue signaling]]” (and of false virtue at that<ref>[[Carbon emissions]]</ref>). | ||
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