The problem is that the narrative that solar is Hippy Shit WAS 100% correct, about 20 years ago. But what happened was the price of cells fucking collapsed and nobody was paying attention.
You have to really watch out for technological shifts because this sometimes happens where an over-hyped / unusable technology suddenly becomes very realistic and nobody notices...
Now the hippies are whining about farmland getting plastered over by giant solar farms - which alone should tell you that the rules have changed...
