Excellent excerpt:<p><i>They have this statement that the cost of solar photovoltaic is the same as hydrocarbon’s. And that’s one of those misleadingly meaningless statements.<p>What they mean is that at noon in Arizona, the cost of that kilowatt-hour is the same as a hydrocarbon kilowatt-hour. But it doesn’t come at night, it doesn’t come after the sun hasn’t shone, so the fact that in that one moment you reach parity, so what?<p>The reading public, when they see things like that, they underestimate how hard this thing is. So false solutions like divestment or “Oh, it’s easy to do” hurt our ability to fix the problems. Distinguishing a real solution from a false solution is actually very complicated.</i><p>I really wish there was more nuance in the discussion about energy at this level. Folks rarely consider the entire system when evaluating energy sources, costs, consumption-side infrastructure, etc. The only way to move forward is to consider all these problems at once.<p>Unfortunately, this is hard, and difficult to put in a headline. Witness: this great interview is called &quot;We Need an Energy Miracle&quot;.<p>Might I propose another: &quot;Energy Infrastructure is Hard.&quot;