&gt; I realize that other forms of energy generation are all subsidized in various ways, so it&#x27;s clearly not as serious as my above interpretation, but still, it doesn&#x27;t speak well of solar.<p>If solar had even a tenth the subsidies that coal and oil have gotten for the past decades, it&#x27;d be on every rooftop by now (especially the nice flat commercial rooftops) and we&#x27;d have as many concentrated-solar facilities as coal plants.