Why renewable energy won't work.

[Kasz216]

Rath said:

Kasz216 said:

sapphi_snake said:

So, in other words: people don't think of what is best in the long run, and saving money is more important than having a planet to live on.

Well... that and most countries don't have the space to build power plants the size of Arizona... because there is no way to make much more efficent wind, solar and hydro plants because there is a very finite amount of energy put in one spot.

Photovoltaic energy is only about 25% efficient at the very top end at the moment, there are ways to make it much more efficient. In fact there are more efficiency gains to be had in solar than in any other form of energy as far as I can see.

Except, even with great funding... breakthroughs have been extremly slow and may not come.

The one thing people seem to forget with research is that research is FAAAAR from a given.  Things in labratorys may never and often never are adopted in the mainstream world because there is no way to make it workable outside labs.

Plenty of other stuff just never gets developed.