[Paine in the Neck]

Wealth is, at its most fundamental level, measured by how much energy you can command. The more energy you have access to the richer you are, individually, as a business, as a society.

This effort to make energy less available, less reliable, and more expensive is at a level of societal insanity comparable to that which overwhelmed the Xhosa in 1856 when the prophetess of doom, Nongqawuse, convinced them that salvation lay in destroying all their cattle and crops. It will not turn out well.

Turning our backs on cheap, plentiful energy from any source is just as bad a move.

[rktman]

Individually, in some place solar may work of a single home but power storage is the issue. I have a big enough chunk of space on the south side of my house(No, not on the roof like my neighbor. Pigeon heaven now) that I could easily put panels in place for our house. But, probably won’t do it. Large scale? I’m not sold on either wind or solar.