Peta-watt hours of energy came in from the sun for all of human history. Most of it is used by the ecosystem.
In any case we didn't use it then. We aren't going to magically use it now.
The fact that we're drilling for fossil energy in increasingly hard to reach places is strong evidence that using more solar energy is non-trivial. You can't just hand wave away the energy issue.
I think that the drilling in hard to reach places proves how lucrative the oligopoly on oil really is to a few powerful, politically connected corporations.
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Peta-watt hours of energy came in from the sun for all of human history. Most of it is used by the ecosystem.
In any case we didn't use it then. We aren't going to magically use it now.
The fact that we're drilling for fossil energy in increasingly hard to reach places is strong evidence that using more solar energy is non-trivial. You can't just hand wave away the energy issue.
I think that the drilling in hard to reach places proves how lucrative the oligopoly on oil really is to a few powerful, politically connected corporations.