Quote from jzlucas:
Wouldn't you need several acres of panels to power a small town using solar? Is it advanced to the point where it provides uninterrupted power? I believe it also leaves a toxic by product when it's lifespan ends.
Not necessarily. Develop a cohesive combination local energy policy. Say after 9:00p the town went on solar charged batteries until say 8:00a. Maybe even keep the town on solar for the weekend. Efficiency could be managed and improved as the technology was implemented. That change alone would be worth a few barrels of savings. It's the start we need to address in the national energy policy.
Further, don't you know that as that happened oil would go down in price. But the genie would be out of the bottle. The n the oil producers would be complaining that America was trying to keep them poor by buying less oil. Since their control depends on the stuff we would be evil again.
The toxic by products can be easily taken care of.
