I had Jimmy Carter’s whitehouse rooftop solar in mind when I said 50 years. Maybe not ready for full deployment at that time, but the lost opportunity for investment and early deployment is tragic in my opinion.
Those were solar hot water heating panels, not photovoltaics. Quite effective for what they did, but not something that could be used as a source of electricity.
Those weren’t even PV panels it was just a solar water heater. *woops, had this comment open long enough while I double checked that that somebody beat me to it
We could have easily had nuclear. But a stupid twist in history tanked it.
The China Syndrome, a popular movie about a total core meltdown, came out 12 days before the 3-Mile Island reactor let a poof of radioactive steam loose. People, being ignorant panicky animals, predictably freaked out. And that was the end of new power plants.
In Oklahoma we were starting a reactor and a bunch of hippies had a hella protest. The government ended up shutting it down.
I want to say “Why couldn’t we do this 50 years ago?” but, I know why.Turns out, no I didn’t.
In particular: wind and solar weren’t ready for this kind of deployment 50 years ago.
I had Jimmy Carter’s whitehouse rooftop solar in mind when I said 50 years. Maybe not ready for full deployment at that time, but the lost opportunity for investment and early deployment is tragic in my opinion.I had a wrong opinion.
Those were solar hot water heating panels, not photovoltaics. Quite effective for what they did, but not something that could be used as a source of electricity.
No they werent?! WHAT! THEY WERE! I WAS WRONG ABOUT SOMETHING?! Ugh…
Those weren’t even PV panels it was just a solar water heater. *woops, had this comment open long enough while I double checked that that somebody beat me to it
We could have easily had nuclear. But a stupid twist in history tanked it.
The China Syndrome, a popular movie about a total core meltdown, came out 12 days before the 3-Mile Island reactor let a poof of radioactive steam loose. People, being ignorant panicky animals, predictably freaked out. And that was the end of new power plants.
In Oklahoma we were starting a reactor and a bunch of hippies had a hella protest. The government ended up shutting it down.