Solar energy has been the next big thing for decades.The current oil crisis and housing market crash has concentrated many investors and engineers in silicon valley to the problem (including Ananda India).
The challenge has been and continues to be the expense and complexity of many solar solutions -- they just cost too much for what energy they put out and are found only in areas with state and or utility subsidies. Each solution seems to be ever more customized, technical and expensive than the last.
This situation suits the profits of Kali Yuga throwbacks big oil and big auto with their lobbies and manipulative marketing, making it hard for individuals to have self sufficient, non polluting homes and transport as current economics force McHomes and McCars on nearly everyone, keeping financial freedom always one step away in McJobs from VP to Professor.
One CA company, Cool Earth, looks like it may have found a simple and elegant Dwapara solution - metallized balloons, which have much better ratios of power to cost than do traditional solutions. En masse, they rival the economies of fossil fuel generating plants and suggest a way forward.
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