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The truth of that statement is entirely a function of the price of solar panels. Again, if they are cheap enough, even on a cloudy winter day, you can power a city with them. My point is that solar is becoming so stupidly cheap that "spam solar panels" is becoming a viable option for our power production needs. Unless you live in such a high latitude that you're near the Arctic circle, you will be able to power things off solar. Solar panels will produce power literally in the middle of a snow storm. It may only be 10% or their peak output. But if you have enough of the damn things, it doesn't matter. And solar is getting cheap enough that this is a viable path forward. And that's before we even talk about other energy storage methods like green hydrogen production or long distance power transport.