Re:Trivial solution (Score 1)

Solar is near worthless. I'll go along with wind, and maybe geothermal, but solar needs to stay in the realm of orbiting satellites and pocket calculators. We have better options than solar and so solar should be left as a last resort.

So i think part of the issue with solar is people misunderstand its usefulness. It is inefficient for storage or transport on a MACRO scale. However on a micro scale it is pretty useful and getting better economically at a pretty good pace. Huge solar farms to power towns are inefficient and make little economic or power production sense(it might be cloudy). However if the same number of "homes" had a basic suburban 10kW system installed and the flat roof systems of all of those shopping centers all had arrays on top i think the benefit might turn out to be cost neutral economically and environmentally beneficial. Even if only modestly. Solar is not an effective energy production replacement, but should be part of any solution discussion as a micro supplement to MACRO hydro, nuclear, wind and geo.