Posted: Apr 01, 2013 9:13 am
Loren Michael wrote:
Better to overshoot the target and have some energy instability that needs to be rolled back than to (relatively) nothing, as in, say, America.
Yeah, it shouldn't be too hard for scientists to work out the optimal level of solar power within any of our current systems. I think the answer to the OP title is a given. Also, I think our government has stopped a lot of their solar power reimbursement schemes because we must be hitting that sort of level (this is purely an anecdote I'll have to do more research).
And the long term goal should be to figure out how to store this solar energy over long periods of time. (to remove some of the variability)