Converting solar to electric energy is not the complicated part, it is changing the focus of the energy industry as a whole. With so much focus and corporate profit on maintaining the current fossil fuel-based energy system, change needs to be localized, as does the reduction on those fossil fuels. In electric energy, transmission is the greatest loss of energy in the process. Creating vast solar arrays in regions when the sun is constant does capture and convert a great deal of energy into electricity for use, but being nowhere near the point of use makes it a highly inefficient solution, just as coal plants are today, wasting much of the energy produced in transporting it where it will be used. Localizing production of solar energy is one highly efficient way to capture that energy and utilize it right at the point of use. Storage systems are still a necessity if that energy is not put to use immediately upon conversion, so batteries or similar devices are still a necessity.
Other supplemental systems that take advantage of electromagnetic currents of the planet are another option for localized energy conversion into a form we can use anywhere, without the need of massive, inefficient power plants. John Bedini developed his monopole device to do just that, reduce reliance upon inefficient sources and work toward a new era of inexpensive energy. Further back, Nikola Tesla experimented in capturing and converting energy without relying on inefficient sources that degraded the environment. Changing the way that people use and capture energy is the greatest hurdle, but that is easier than forcing the energy industry to move toward sustainable solutions. Free energy is not something that big oil or coal companies are willing to invest in, and they have a history of using the government's monopoly on force to silence these innovations, simply to avoid losing profits.
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