eli5: Why do we not run heavily on solar energy as a society or at least in sunny places?
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it is the inertia of infrastructure where if you have spent $1000’s on a power system that is meant to last 30 years, it is hard to say lets toss the whole system away and go solar.
It takes about 10 years to pay the costs back on solar vs normal power costs these days but that is down from 15 years ago in 2020 but the whole pay every thing now while the price is dropping gives so 2nd thoughts. Delayed gratification is big on price delays uptake.
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