Solar is a pipe dream, and it's not an "infrastructurally-solvable" set of problems it faces.
Let's put it this way: a cow is solar powered. Each cow needs about 1-1.5 acres of land to convert that solar energy to sustain itself.
Want a real world experiment? Buy one of those cheap android cell phones running a 5inch screen and then replace the battery with a solar panel inverter and then keep it running the entire time the sun is out on a portable solar array of your choice.
The sun puts out a metric boatload of power, but very little of it hits earth. For what does hit earth, we have yet to build anything that can be mass produced to take advantage of more than about 35 percent of that in ideal conditions outside the laboratory (some lab experiments have yields conversions upwards of 80%, but they are not yet commercially practical).
Solar is a pipe dream, and it's not an "infrastructurally-solvable" set of problems it faces.
Let's put it this way: a cow is solar powered. Each cow needs about 1-1.5 acres of land to convert that solar energy to sustain itself.
Want a real world experiment? Buy one of those cheap android cell phones running a 5inch screen and then replace the battery with a solar panel inverter and then keep it running the entire time the sun is out on a portable solar array of your choice.
The sun puts out a metric boatload of power, but very little of it hits earth. For what does hit earth, we have yet to build anything that can be mass produced to take advantage of more than about 35 percent of that in ideal conditions outside the laboratory (some lab experiments have yields conversions upwards of 80%, but they are not yet commercially practical).