@fluffy @cjd @nanook @p I've been fucking around with solar power of about 20 years. Nobody is rushing out to slap down solar farms they are doing it because they are farming other people's money via government grift. Outside of Arizona, some parts of southern California, and maybe New Mexico they make no sense even as a peaker plant at the current cost (and constant availability) of natural gas.

Its the same people that have a boner for heatpumps - for most of north america in winter below ~37F it costs less per therm to just burn methane in a furnace than it does to try to work the corner of the COP graph.