Longtime readers of this blog know that I am a believer in the huge potential of solar energy while being against wind energy except for specialized deployment. The UK's Telegraph has a comprehensive article that summarizes where we are with solar:
Solar power has won the global argument. Photovoltaic energy is already so cheap that it competes with oil, diesel and liquefied natural gas in much of Asia without subsidies.
As Roger Pielke, Jr. has long contended, the way to get away from fossil fuels isn't a carbon tax, it is investing in R&D to make alternative energy so inexpensive that people turn away from fossil fuels because there is an attractive alternative. Solar has that potential.
It is especially attractive to me because some of the world's poorest live in equatorial areas. It has to potential to significantly improve their lives at lower costs than previous alternatives.
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