Solar power may someday amount to something. At the present, it’s a racket for ripoff artists.
At present it is a money laundry. RICO.
Solar will never amount to squat. When I took physics we had a problem, “Assuming 100% efficiency in converting available energy in sunlight to electricity how much surface area would be required to power the US?”. This was in the ‘70s. Answer? Every square inch of the state of Texas.
A 100% solar country would be very different. Welding? Thing of the past. Recycled aluminum? Are you kidding? Anyone with a brain knows solar is Unicorn crap. Then again, we’re talking Americans. 100 years ago Americans would have been ashamed to be so dumb.
I've been pricing 5 kW grid-tied systems for my house and these big operations like Verengo, Solar City, etc. are relying on the government subsidy to juice their profits. Their profit margin is basically designed to steal the 30% government credit from the homeowner plus the nominal profit. If the government credit ever goes away, many of these companies will too. Ever wonder where the sleaziest of used car salesmen go - solar power system sales.