Driver-less cars make sense as taxis. Car ownership in a large city didn't make sense for me in 2007, rental was much more logical. I lived within walking distance of the rental company and they had a frequent user program. Also when you are a frequent user you get better service and are often upgraded for no extra cost as a commercial gesture.
That's a web page, the facts say otherwise if examined. Remember he claimed 100% of the world's energy from solar in 12 years time.
If there was very good chance of that, or anything like it happening, why would so many countries be building and planning power stations with at least 60 years lifespan. That includes the UK, the huge 3200 mW Hinckley Point starting construction for commissioning sometime in the 2020s, and a number of Chinese nuclear stations planned to follow.
And why would the world scrap all their hydro power stations, many new built, in favour of spending a fortune on solar, merely to achieve his silly prediction of 100% solar. Or scrap all the wind power fields just commissioned and still being erected, for the same reason.
With the greatest respect AK, I believe you should allow more time for your critical faculties to make deductions from the facts.
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We know that the earth receives enough energy from the sun to go 100% solar, the math has been done countless times. I am reasonably sure he was talking about domestic and office electricity usage (and with a US bias), there was a reference to industrial use and other forms of power generation in his talk.
The UK is investing in nuclear because someone is making money from that option, the French and the Chinese IIRC. Countries are investing in old energy because they have no imagination, some politicians still deny climate change... They are also subject to corruption from existing energy companies, why does Spain have a tax on PV panels do you think? Even Madame Merckel has a very complicated relationship with coal! How much money is spent on lobbying and lies about the costs of alternative energy generation?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Portugal
NZ won't scrap hydroelectric, Iceland won't scrap hydrothermal. I don't think wind will resist everywhere because of cost. Yes it is cheaper than coal right now but with solar plummeting it won't hold out in Spain for example, it probably will in Scotland though.
My critical faculties tell me we as a species have a lot of problems to fix right now if we want to continue living on a planet with limited resources. I like thinking outside the box (proof - no car, electric bicycle) and this talk raises some very interesting points. The man is throwing a rock in the pond and hoping that a few ripples reach the banks. He got me thinking and even if he is only 50% correct then that 50% is a step in the right direction.