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Originally Posted by **********
And speaking of China, installed over 12 Gigawatts of solar power capacity in 2013 alone.
So don't discount Solar. It's expensive and clearly not for everyone, but it definitely has a future.
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I hardly think its relevant what a 1/2 communist government, in one of the most populous nations on the planet and who is still mostly living in the stone age, and where they are not living in the stone age, they are almost wholly dependent on coal is doing in solar.
Its a physics and a math problem... not a "can a communist government who is one of the largest polluters in the world, spend the money to make a token effort for UN Summits to shut people up" problem.
The point is not whether or not to "discount solar"... obviously at some point in the future it will get figured out. The point is "right here, right now, today... its not".
The idea of covering all major highways with solar panels is insane, at best for a myriad of issues... not to mention the most obvious issue that roads are city, state, county and federal and can't be taken over by private enterprise.