There will always be service jobs. But they will likely have lots of people on some form of Universal Basic Income --- which they will pay for using money sucked out of western economies.
Where will the USA get this kind of money from? Borrowing/credit?
Panels are becoming as cheap as the dirt from whence they came so owners of big plots spend the least welder-hours propping them off the ground. Would this make sense for airports?
"Uh, control, we cant see the ground because there is a massive blinding glare coming from what appears to be a giant field of mirrors with a landing strip in the middle."
So, people take up volume, which is a cubic function, whereas solar panels take up surface area, which is a square function. But on top of that, though they might kvetch, people can be in a shadow and still be reasonably in a dwelling. If you started making a field of solar towers, they'd start casting shade on each other and reduce the efficiency. Which isn't to say that there would be zero marginal additional kwh/sqft, but that you'd get dramatically diminishing returns the less you spaced out the towers, which I think happens slower for people.
The increased "density" is measured in kwh per acre --- and the increased efficiency figures into this.
The solar revolution has definitely arrived when even oil soaked Texas is on board.
At this rate, it will only takes a few decades for the USA to catch China.
https://electrek.co/2025/09/02/h1-2025-china-installs-more-s...
It's a sad thing to say but to see the future, look to China, not the USA.
Where will China be in a few decades?
https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/western-executives-...
I wonder what the people in the USA will be doing then? Still waiting for tariff payments from China?
There will always be service jobs. But they will likely have lots of people on some form of Universal Basic Income --- which they will pay for using money sucked out of western economies.
Where will the USA get this kind of money from? Borrowing/credit?
https://www.the-sun.com/topic/universal-basic-income/
It's a sad thing to say but to see the future, look to China, not the USA.
Made me chuckle since the panels revolve to track the sun.
This is not a good analogy and seems to misunderstand the purpose of the arrangement.