[ansel12]

Cheap? Who cares if they are still embarrassingly inefficient. No thanks, if given a choice I’ll still take unfashionable petroleum, coal and natural gas reserves over “hip” new materials.

Huge numbers of Americans live in vast areas of America that is perfectly suited for solar, even if new things are too "hip" for you.

[EyeGuy]

“Huge numbers of Americans live in vast areas of America that is perfectly suited for solar, even if new things are too “hip” for you.”

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Huge numbers? Vast areas?

So why isn’t solar happening in a big way? Because it is too expensive in that it remains grossly inefficient and thus unworkable without subsidies from other areas of the economy.

Not ALL new things are too “hip” for me, just impractical technology that, in theory sounds ideal, and is shoved down our throats by those that “know better” what is best for us.

If you can make solar work in the very sunny high desert of CA, without government subsidies (ie, money out of my pocket), then by all means, Godspeed to you.