The author had the story wrong. Kerosene did save the whales—that’s the reason they there around to be so relentlessly hunted in the mid 1900s. The reality is

The author had the story wrong. Kerosene did save the whales—that’s the reason they there around to be so relentlessly hunted in the mid 1900s. The reality is that whales had to be saved twice. The problem with this story about solar is that solar might produce low cost electricity but it’s also low value electricity. It’s much more expensive when you try to replace oil with solar. Those are really apples and oranges technologies.