I was just thinking -
Can you imagine the collateral damage if an earthquake hits a whole subdivision or city? The grid goes down immediately, with no way of restoring it for months or even years, as one by one, the panel arrays are repaired and reconnected.
Solar power and wind power, except for some very small niche applications, are technological dead ends. To assure reliable power generation, all these systems have to be backed up, with with an unimaginable array of supercapacitors and/or battery storage systems, or with more direct substitution of natural-gas or other fossil fuel powered generation stations, plus as much development of hydroelectric generation as is both practical and possible.
Or they could come to depend on nuclear power generation, with its attendant storage and containment problems. THAT sends the greenie-weenies out into the street in screaming fits.
Half correct. Wind is a dead end. Solar is solid state and improving rapidly. I wouldn't install the current generation of solar although in California there is a strong economic incentive to do so. But those same panels will be tossed in 20 years because there will be much stronger (and real) incentive to use the new ones. In the meantime the economic effect of the panels will be negative.
The new panels will have built in storage, no need for batteries. Also 2-3 times as efficient (2 for sure already working in labs, 3 in theory and in reality eventually).