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i only see large scale solar power as engineering problems, which are usually overcome if enough money is spent on it, and if there is political will and political/national stability.
storage mechanisms for energy are in development and under testing. is it viable now? maybe, maybe not but if we spent the dollars on it it probably would become viable in the short to medium term.
widespread solar collectors (or whatever you want to call them) and distributed power generation that overcome the issue of long-term cloud? well, that would be possible in Australia since we are a stable country but maybe not in some african or middle-eastern regions.
i often feel that the debate about solar always revolves around the problems but rarely do we hear discussion about solutions. We just need to make the decision to go for it in a meaningful way rather than only discuss why it is not possible (which is also my feeling about the public transport debate in melbourne).
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