The heavily subsidized solar industry is little more than workfare.
Grist reports that solar workers now outnumber coal miners.
Coal provided 42% of U.S. electricty needs in 2011.
Solar provided 0.2% of global electricity needs in 2011.
You do the math.
It is easy to see why wind powered electricity is three times as expensive as coal generated electricity.
It’s not a failure if the goal is “wealth transfers and destruction of wealth and constraint of productivity and reduction of standards of living and…”
Oh, it’s more than workfare. It’s subsidies and wealth transfers and destruction of wealth and constraint of productivity and reduction of standards of living and…
If it worked, it would work on its own. If something only works on subsidies, it is a failure.