I don’t disagree with anything you said but the future may be here sooner than we think, solar has become quite popular for renters in Germany and New York recently passed a law allowing it too.

This is really telling. Coal industry receives large government subsidies, and solar is getting put behind a lot of red tape and permitting, etc. And despite these efforts it is still catching on.

I’m glad to see this in the Financial Times because “clean power” is only half the equation here. There is an economic benefit because solar is cheap power! And there also a national defense angle because solar is increasingly decentralized power that kneecaps both the terrorist looking to damage power infrastructure, not to mention the very concept of the petrostate.