1. Solar energy is not cost effective due to the cost of equipment and the cost fossil fuels needed to create solar energy cells in the first place. If you were to install solar panel on an average home in Phoenix AZ and you calculated the cost + fossil fuels used in creating the solar equipment it would take from 5-8 years to show a profit. Other cities that get less sun than the desert would take even longer and the cost would go up as you also calculate Maintenance dollars.
2. In order to generate enough energy to effectively curb our need for fossil fuels would not be economically prudent or reliable with the given solar technology as we know it today.
3.Hydrogen fueled cars and and big trucks is the main target of defeating the need for foreign oil. Solar energy will never be able to generate enough energy to supply hydrogen refueling stations.
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Yes.
well big will the industry on earth is already powered by solar energy, in the form of food you eat.
All the food on earth is reliant on the sun and that is the building block of life as we know it.
It just takes a bit more science to progress it to electricity. At present its not efficient, but who knows in 50 years.
solar energy is awesome. i live in melbourne vic, there was a house i think in camberwell inner city that they put solar panels on about ten years ago, i heard that even in winter he was putting power back into the power grid, but governments are greedy and there is no money in it for them. god help us all if we don’t start using clean energy soon regards dave
You didn’t mention a storage device(s) for them cloudy days and night time.