Why has Solar Energy not taken over yet?
Question:
Big Oil and Big Coal were at one point VERY EXPENSIVE and then lowered in price when it became common and popular. Yet the pollution from both is at the very least bad for mankinds lives.
PVC cells come from Silicon which is the 2nd most prevalent resource on earth. The technology is NOT NEW. Its actually over 40 years old.
It can be put literally anywhere as it has nothing to do with temperature.
Sunlight is sunlight.
Many countries where there is less sun do not need solar PVC energy. Iceland where it is dark 3 months out of the year depend on geothermal and hydroelectric energy to power 100% of the country.
Hydroelectric,Wind,Nuclear and Geothermal energy can provide all the energy the USA needs in the evening hours.
A solar PVC system 3 times the size of Rhode Island can power the entire USA during the day. This easily fits in empty areas of Utah,Arizona and Nevada.
And there is room for more !!
Answer:
If you checked into the financial aspects of developing solar energy you would find it is not financially viable. While you are covering a couple of states with solar panels, where does the money come from and what is the return and efficiency on solar panels?
Simplistic question..very, very, very complex answers. And by the way.Iceland probably requires about the same amount of energy as Cleveland does.
you are right but the only reason this hasn't happened yet is money, there are billions of dollars being made out of the oil and coal industries and intill someone can get them to stop they will continue doing it
You can't charge for sunlight. Crappy answer, but the truth never is pretty.
I looked into purchasing solar panels for my house, but it would have taken 10 years for the cost to be justified. If it were cheaper I would be all over it.
Here in Michigan, I haven't seen the sun for 6 months.
Its very expensive and you need to be somewhere with a lot of space to put all the solar cells and batteries. 3 times the size of Rhode Island is still huge and you would displace lots plants and animals to build it.
How efficient is it? I think you would need batteries unless you want to sit around with no power at night since there would be less solar energy at night because you are facing away from the sun.
as long as we can still afford to fill our tanks with gas, it won't happen.
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