A Cloudy Day... [View All]

[grahampuba]

A cloudy day.
That is the kink in the supply chain of solar energy and apparently the deal breaker for many peoples consideration of solar power.

I would infer then, that they have more faith in the supply chain of fossil fuels to be there for them on demand.

Exploration - acquisition - drilling - tanker - pipeline - refinery - distribution - market. And of course that could be sliced and diced a little depending on where the oil is coming from and I'm not even bringing to bear the myriad of market forces and economic conditions. Natural Gas resembles this chain closely, but if we want to talk about coal or nuclear we should add in mining and all of its inherent processes in lieu of drilling perhaps.
I guess the faith is there due to close to 100 years of delivery with relatively few hiccups, but we've seen a few instances, most recently in Japan as to how a supply chain can be crippled and previously in the late 70' with the oil crisis, but I've never heard of a saying that goes "As sure as the tanker will dock"