[robomartin]

> analyze the economics of complex industrial technologies.

Except I have been responsible for the design, construction, installation and operation of large complex industrial installations. That is what I did 40 years ago. Not solar, of course, but beyond a certain scale a project is a project, whether you are building a bridge, road or chemical processing installation. Of course, the private sector has different dynamics when compared to government projects.

Also, as I mentioned in my other reply to you, I never made financial claims about solar. This is a branch introduced by someone who could not argue against what I was saying and chose to divert the conversation. My claim was simple:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31430747

"if you want the equivalent of a 1 GW nuclear power plant, the minimum size of your solar array is at least 7 GW peak"

So, please, don't charge me with something I did not enter into the argument.