[Teever]

Solar and battery is bigger than you can tell from where you're looking.

Large cities in S.E. Asia are absolutely choking on smog, much of produced from shitty motor bikes and rickshaws. A shift to battery powered personal transportation with the batteries powered by local solar panels installed on buildings or walls or anywhere and everywhere they can stuff them can completely eliminate that pollution and completely eliminiate the need to import massive amounts of fuel.

The supply chain for the electricity can literally be like 200ft from the panels on a roof to the stand of motorbikes charging below. Compare that to trucks that have to drive miles to reload gas stations, or the maintenance costs of installing pipe infrastructure to transport it.

[psychoslave]

Sure on that regard and many others, this looks really great.

We still have long pipeline and centralized infrastructure for producing the panel themselves, with also its own environmental impact. I don't mean to lower the benefits of solar panel here, and other practical solutions we have under the hand clearly have at least as many negative impacts.

As other stated, we don't have yet a fabulous solution that allows to give every human the opportunity to blow and flourish with an abondance of energy that isn't generating pollution and large scale destruction of biodiversity. However the simple fact that such a goal is distinctively clear and considerable is already a big asset