The Amount of New Solar Power Production Capacity China Is Manufacturing Is Legitimately Mind-Blowing

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3. We recently had a fossil fuel sales guy around here rebranding them as "hydrogen" who liked to post obscene pictures...

...of solar facilities in China, including floating facilities on bodies of water. (This was part of the bait and switch scheme taking advantage of the fact that people actually still believe solar energy is "green" despite lots of evidence to the contrary.)

The fact is that solar cells are mass and area intensive and relatively short lived. I regard them largely as consumer junk. The subsidies supporting them are subsidiaries to wealthy people, people who can afford to own homes, as opposed to people who cannot afford homes. They have a waste problem on a scale of millions upon millions of metric tons.

They may be of limited utility in certain cases, I agree, but they are not now, never have been, and never will be as sustainable and as clean as nuclear energy.