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> Energy is a physics not a technology problem. There's plenty of energy out there, delivered by the Sun. You just need cheap tech to harvest and store it. Ene
by olau 7y ago
> Energy is a physics not a technology problem.
There's plenty of energy out there, delivered by the Sun. You just need cheap tech to harvest and store it. Energy is most decidedly a tech problem.
What has moved PV and wind turbines from niche tech to the real deal is production scale. Once production is scaling up, there's plenty of money for research in practical problems.
- ThomPete 7y agoThe energy is spread thin which makes it great for powering a watch or a house but not for actual serial industrial usage which is where our primary energy usage would be. Energy is not a tech problem, optimizing subpar energy to deliver 5% better when the capacity factor is down at around 20-30 isn't actually solving anything fundamental and our energy usage is a fundamental problem. The future will need more energy much much more. Wind and solar are linear solutions to an exponential problem.