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
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