the powers that be are idiots
"The commercial imperative is an important goal that we dare not take our eyes off."
We have taken our eyes off the commercial imperative available through renewable energy (all this technology has been around, in some form, for a hundred years or more). We do take our eyes, as a country, off of that fact. The US power base will, for the most part, ignore this and try to dig in further.
It is certainly an opportunity.