eli5: Why do we not run heavily on solar energy as a society or at least in sunny places?

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eli5: Why do we not run heavily on solar energy as a society or at least in sunny places?

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Since we assigned ZERO cost to health, environment, and climate damage, fossil fuels look a lot cheaper than the alternatives.

Now renewables and storage are coming along nicely, all cost trends say they will dominate the markets in a few years. Nuclear is losing the cost competition, fossil causes climate change.

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