Solar is far from being free to harvest and it is definitely finite at the local level. We are not talking about the universe, to someone living in Alaska sola

Solar is far from being free to harvest and it is definitely finite at the local level. We are not talking about the universe, to someone living in Alaska solar is very finite, in fact, it's useless. By that way of thinking petroleum, nuclear, natural gas, wind, etc., are free and infinite at a human scale. They are not. Each of this has finite costs, direct and indirect consequences of deployment at scale. And because no energy conversion process is 100% efficient, each of them has consequences related to the fact that waste --most often in the form of heat-- will be generated as an unavoidable part of the conversion process. We can't look at electric cars with innocent idealistic eyes and think they are the solution to all of our problems just because they don't have a tail pipe. They do, in fact, have an exhaust pipe, it just happens to be distributed across the entire energy and materials supply chain. I am very much pro electric transportation. I simply don't like the idea of not being honest about what it is and what it is not. Utopia it is not.