If we switch to molten salt based thorium we'll have thousands of years of fuel.

We're not there yet. Until we are efficiency is useful. Don't get me wrong, I think we should electrify everything, but you should always use the resources you have as efficiently as is prudent.

Your first response is nonsensical.

How many panels? How much resources? You ignore these questions because answering them destroys your platitudes.

How much physical resources would it take to build the panels necessary to harvest infinite energy? How much land area?

The only thing infinite in this situation is the stupidity required to believe that any resource is infinite.

I usually don't reply to ACs, but I must respond to the stupid.

Building solar panels takes resources. Marshaling resources takes energy. You may not get more energy out of the panels than you put in to build them, install them, and maintain them. They also degrade over time.

Bottom line is no form of energy generation comes for free. It should be used as efficiently as possible and not wasted.

This may be true for you, but some parts oft he world get cold at night.

And as for your "you can waste all you want from wind and solar" premise, that's just sheer lunacy. No resource is infinite.

Awesome that you can make technology projections in that time scale, especially when few can even project accurately even twenty years into the future. Bravo.

To be fair thorium reactors are not 100% proliferation proof, but they are much better than light water uranium based reactors. It all comes down to passive safety. With passive safe designs it is much more feasible to seal the reactor vessel, and with sealing comes greater proliferation resistance.

Physical Readiness Test?

Primary Response Team?

Poor Righteous Teachers?

Pave the Earth!

The grid cares.

I guarantee you the. Koch brothers love renewables. They'll let them greenwash natgas forever.

Low density living is not sustainable.

The grid infrastructure you're referring to often requires significant upgrading to handle two way electricity flow, and/or significant use of batteries.