The solar power fraud was developed solely to funnel taxpayer funds to political “friends” then from the “friends” to the politicians. Game! Set! Match! The solar power fraud flows directly from the “Climate Change,” “Global Warning” fraud.
If solar power becomes efficient, politicians will try and outlaw it. (prohibit solar panels, regulation, taxation)
At best solar power is a niche industry, applicable only to sites where other power sources cannot be extended, due to isolation or difficult access for power generated elsewhere.
Maybe a form of beamed wireless energy can be introduced that allows these inaccessible sites to connect to the larger grid.
For cheap, sustainable electrical power, not much can maintain a steady base supply, day and night, better than nuclear-generated electrical power.
Atomic power plants can only run in two modes, flat out producing full power, or offline and producing no power.
The no-power would come when necessary plant maintenance must be done. It is not feasible to idle only part of the capacity of a single unit, it is all or nothing.
But nuclear-generated power need not be just light-water uranium fission plants. There is another design, Thorium-powered Molten-Salt plants, which are VASTLY more flexible, the working versions have been tested, and they do not have many of the long-term handicaps that limit the application of Uranium-fueled plants.
For one thing, there is no way a “China syndrome” could ever occur, and Thorium-fueled plants do not have a “runaway” scenario, The molten salt would spill into a containment structure, and the reaction would simply stop.
Thorium, by itself, is not “fissile”, but it is considered “fertile”. In the presence of small quantities of fissile material, the thorium is converted to a different isotope, then into a different element, protactinium-233, which has a very short half-life, becoming uranium-233, the same stuff that is the power generation substance in the uranium-powered reactor, and itself is the “fissile” material.
Suspended in the molten-salt solution, the uranium-233 then produces the heat necessary to make the atomic pile into a power-generation source. And with virtually NO long-lived radioactive isotopes, that make the atomic “waste” of uranium-powered plants such a long-term danger to the environment.
And the best part? The existing stock of “depleted” uranium fuel rods may be utilized to provide the fissile “sparkplug” to start the reaction in the thorium-fueled plant.
We have a much more extensive and relatively easily extracted supply of thorium throughout the world than there is of uranium-238 and its various isotopes.
We have the technology. We have the demand. We even have the capital that could be committed, if all these other fool’s errands were not constantly being thrust up there as an “alternative”.
With widespread adoption of this thorium-fueled molten-salt nuclear technology, most countries could become energy-independent within just a few decades, as this becomes the primary source of electrical generation for residential and industry, and the use of hydrogen fuel cells for vehicular power becomes economically feasible.