Soundwave on 18 December 2016
| fatslob-:O said: Too bad that fossil fuels are cheaper than solar energy in most of the United States ... Solar Power has no foreseeable future as a big supplier in developed nations, eh ? The other thing that pisses me off about so called "renewable" alternatives to energy is that their intermittent and that we'd need expensive batteries to store that energy if we want to be self sustaining from fossil fuels ... Extreme environmentalists will never be able to break off dependence from traditional sources of energy no matter how hard they wish it LOL ... |
The sun is the provider and enabler of all life on the planet pretty much. If it can do that, it certainly can power our piddly little automobiles and homes. The sun emits a tremendous amount of solar energy onto the earth's surface, several times more than our energy needs require.
The price of solar will continue to come down too. This is all the land needed (the purple square there) of solar panels to power the entire United States, and that could be obviously more spread out through the country into like 10-20 different spots.
