[pfdietz]

It's a solved problem in the sense that it involves components that are all understood to work, integrated. This is the surest kind of innovation.

Now, we don't know how cheap it will ultimately be once these things are integrated and run down their experience curves. But pretending there's any serious doubt that they would work is more dishonest than arguing they would.

[gwright]

Your definition of "solved" is quite a bit different than my definition of "solved". Especially if you are going to just pretend that the economics aren't to be included in the solution.

[pfdietz]

Yes, your definition of "solved" is useful for nothing but obfuscation and denial. Mine is useful for planning what to do.

[loeg]

Come on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html