eli5: Why do we not run heavily on solar energy as a society or at least in sunny places?
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while the options for clean energy are numerous and viabile, the question is what do we do with the rest of the energy industry? Let’s take the electric companies for example. Do we just disolve them? Fire everyone working there and wish them the best? You could say that we could train them for the new jobs, but many of those workerst are past their 40s, maybe even 50s. From a business point of view, it would be better to train a new guy instead. So replacing an industry would harm the society in a way.
I’m sure there is a proper way to do it safely for everyone involved, especially the common people, but that’s one of the main arguments why they’d never do something that drastic. That, and also, which company owner or industry bigshot is willing to give up on their currently succesful business in exchange for a possibly succesful new one?
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