There is a place for solar - namely as a widely distributed resource on rooftops to supplement large-scale power sources. But not as a primary source of power.
“There is a place for solar - namely as a widely distributed resource on rooftops to supplement large-scale power sources. But not as a primary source of power.”
You are misinformed about rooftop solar. In most cases, it is a very inefficient way to generate electricity. Absent huge subsidies (federal and state tax credits, forced utility subsidy (utility earns interest on this investment), forced offsets of excess solar power generation, and other solar industry subsidies), rooftop solar has payback periods from 50 to 100 years. Without subsidies, rooftop solar would be limited to offgrid usage and rich, deluded leftists.
Mega dittos.
What the idiots who write to the papers who think that a future solar collector the size of a cellphone can light up a city don’t realize:
A square foot 100% efficient solar collector at the equator at noon generates only 100 watts. And a 100% efficient collector is impossible.