re: No Blackouts in Texas? Thank Solar.

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That may be true. And I know very few people opposed to the concept of “green” or “renewable” energy. Or whatever you want to call it. The more diverse sources of electricity feeding the grid, the less like the grid is to fail. The issue is government interference with the natural adoption of these technologies by subsidizing them. If they are better, the market will adopt them.

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Do you want better or more diverse -- because government subsidies can be directed to make things more diverse is they subsidize the lesser used option.

Government can also subsidize the "better" option, so if solar is clearly better for the air quality, then government can do both.

Agree that the market, alone, with ultimately find the better option, but since external costs aren't necessarily priced in, merkets' going to have a hard time finding the sweet spot alone.