I wish I could share this outlook but I see a few things slowing the installation velocity of zero emission energy generation. These are a mix of technological

I wish I could share this outlook but I see a few things slowing the installation velocity of zero emission energy generation. These are a mix of technological and political. What we are seeing currently in the install velocity is probably the low hanging/small scale projects in politically favorable states (in the US anyway). On the technological side as projects get bigger they are running into issues. Take the large solar plant in California for example: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601071/one-of-the-worlds-largest-solar-facilities-is-in-trouble/ https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601071/one-of-the-worlds-... Naturally, these are typical issues that we see when scaling any new technology up for the first time. They will be resolved, but how soon? Secondly, and this is probably the bigger issue, without a Manhattan like project for zero emissions energy production the political drive to switch will be painfully slow. Remember how much MONEY there is in fossil fuels and these companies are not going to go silently into the night. There are large states where significant numbers of americans live (think Texas, Arizona, Florida) where the politicians won't even acknowledge global warming! (IE see who funds the campaigns). Homeowners in Oklahoma face a fee for using solar. http://www.climatecentral.org/news/oklahoma-solar-surcharge-bill-becomes-law-17335 http://www.climatecentral.org/news/oklahoma-solar-surcharge-... Nevada got rid of net metering http://www.marketplace.org/2016/02/23/world/nevada-solar http://www.marketplace.org/2016/02/23/world/nevada-solar There was this collapse of the Cape Cod wind project last year... https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2015/01/30/what-really-toppled-cape-wind-plans-for-nantucket-sound/mGJnw0PbCdfzZHtITxq1aN/story.html https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2015/01/30/what-really-... Even though we NEED to be off fossil fuels for energy generation in 12-15 years I fear we won't be anywhere close. The best thing that can be done for the near term is limit consumption as much as possible until we are completely off ALL fossil fuels.