Clues needed, indeed.
First off, I don't know why you are addressing me instead of Hates Idiots.
But I do agree with him/her that the religious fanaticism with CO2 is causing us to lose focus on forms of pollution that mankind actually and factually is responsible for. Each and every year, China expands their coal-fired electrical grid by the size of Great Britain's. And they aren't particularly concerned about mandating the kind of expensive scrubbing technology we mandate. We could shut down our grid tomorrow, and it won't make much of a difference.
Second, mass deployment of solar is pointless until storage technologies evolve that address the base load problem. Mandating solar panels/shingles/etc as well as windmills is waste of resources.
The problem is that it's tough for politicians to get accolades for investing in something that few people understand or can see, or can stand in front of for photo ops. So until more people "get a clue", we'll continue to waste billions of other people's money on crony capitalist solar factories and farms and make the Chinese richer as they continue to burn coal with total abandon.
