westernrvparkowner wrote:
"Doubling every two years" is a very misleading statement. Not much different than saying your savings doubled from a year ago. Without a basis of reference, it is meaningless. If you had a dime in savings last year and doubled that to twenty cents, you really haven't made an impact on your financial situation and the doubling of solar contribution to our energy grid is almost equally as meaningless. Until large scale impacts are made in the amount of energy solar actually supplies to our electrical grids and electrical consumption, any geometric measurement will be misleading. The fact remains that much less than 1 percent of our country's electrical needs are met by solar. That is an insignificant contribution when considering our electrical needs. And that doesn't even begin to address the costs associated with that .6 percent compared to the costs of the other 99.4.
17 years to go 100% solar if the doubling continues. Do the math.
Central plants will be for industry only. Home solar will soon cost less than distribution. This means even if electricity is produced for FREE it will cost too much for the transmission alone to be worth staying on the central grid.
