Why hasn't the solar industry taken off yet?

Why hasn't the solar industry taken off yet?

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The oil companies make the sun go down every night. Also, the oil companies have limited the amount of energy available per square metre on earth. Also, battery tech isn’t there yet… likely due to oil companies.

Oil companies also make the upfront cost overly expensive

But it has?
It's like the fastest growing energy industry.

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Yeah, what user Said

the cost and environmental impact from producing solar panels, better off just using coal power plants

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It's based off of 1950s technology
Doesn't produce enough energy to be viable
Has a short lifetime (10-12 years)
Afterwards becomes toxic waste that is unable to be recycled

They are fine in certain circumstances but for providing wide scale energy to a society that is energy hungry it's just not practical.

it is good, my local utility has designed pricing schemes so when the solar panels produce the most energy customers get the least return on investment.

Doesn't mean that it's practical, much less that it can provide the energy society needs to function

it's like nuclear energy is there but nobody sees it

the utilities still have to have the capacity for peak draws on cloudy days when a residential solar system will not pick up the slack.

wind; vert > horiz

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Nuclear energy is the solution but people are too retarded

Current main power plants are based off the steam engine, 1700s technology
Pretty stupid argument

>It's based off of 1950s technology
>Doesn't produce enough energy to be viable
>Has a short lifetime (10-12 years)
>Afterwards becomes toxic waste that is unable to be recycled
So, literally the same as nuculear energy.

24 hour a day solar is a thing
The iron/steel industry use it on a regular basis as does aluminum smelters, welding machines, car manufacturers etc etc

>vert > horiz
What ever increase on energy product you get from that design is offset the by the cost in the complicated engineering. Besides I read that those things are only more efficient at converting wind to electricity when they're positioned close together.

It just doesn't turn a profit.

>Afterwards becomes toxic waste that is unable to be recycled
We could do solar thermal. That can be run over night too.

>toxic waste that is unable to be recycled
elaborate?

this

ya, horizontal is more efficient, but difficult to maintenance with out multiple certs and special design consideration.
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