Solar may not be the most affordable power source today, but wait a few years and it will be. Or get on with organizing the political and corporate structures to be ready. In sunny south Georgia, solar is our best bet.
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The plummeting cost of solar electricity
Computers are so small and cheap these days that the phone in your pocket
has more computing power than the biggest corporate computers of a few decades
ago.
A similar phenomenon is driving down the cost of solar electricity.
Ramez Naam writes in ScientificAmerican,
Smaller, cheaper, faster: Does Moore’s law apply to solar cells?
Here’s a summary in one diagram:
What people seem to forget is that the advent of a solar power system means less reliance on a public service utility company, so there will be annual savings achieved from that expenditure alone.