Will Solar Save the Planet?

[kristopher]

9. "Chickenshit"

That would better be applied to the endless reams of garbage you produce when you pretend you are forecasting energy trends.

I know what I don't know.

I know the trends indicate renewables are deploying far more rapidly than anyone hoped even 10 years ago.
I don't know (nor does anyone else) how, in the short and medium term, that is going to play out across the globe in the political and economic spheres.

I know that given present technologies, the resource and economic dynamics dictate that we will inevitably move to renewable sources of power.
I don't know how long fossil fuels and nuclear can fight a rearguard action delaying this transition.

I know that IF WE HAD THE POLITICAL WILL, we could turn the corner within a decade.
I don't know what good thing we can do to create that political will.