Joe Biden's Solar Plan and the Prescience of Jimmy Carter

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4. Step two: Build more gas plants to back this useless crap up when something called "night" occurs.

That's precisely what California, the solar "paradise" is doing.

August 20, 2021: California Will Add Gas-Fired Units to Increase Power Supply

There is no rational reason and no ethical reason to massively subsidize the solar industry, with the subsidies going to rich people at the expense of poor people.

The solar industry is not clean, it is not "green," and it is not sustainable, and all the pleading by bourgeois homeowners to get subsidies so that people living hand to mouth in tiny apartments cannot afford access to electricity.

It is true in a purely thermodynamic, and thus environmental sense, that continuous energy production is vastly superior to unreliable and discontinuous energy.

It's seldom noticed in all the bourgeois handwaving about solar PV energy that the sun goes down. When it is noticed, people begin fantasizing about batteries, again with bourgeois indifference to, for one example, whether the world will run out of cobalt for child slaves to dig in the DRC so we can all feel "green" in the United States.

History will not forgive us, nor should it.