The question of transition to power supply from solar power engineering rises especially sharply in recent years. It is connected both with rise in price of hydrocarbons, and with systematic air pollution by carbonic acid emissions.
Potential of the energy brought to Earth by sunlight cannot be overestimated. There is a set of the reasons for transition to power supply of the planet from renewable sources, however most of them is not considered seriously. Meanwhile, heliopower stations gain ground in the world year after year, however transition to so-called net energy remains far in the future.
Hopelessness factor
The quantity of the fossil resources hidden in the depths of the planet is strongly limited. Even the most optimistic forecasts give about fifty years in order that the mankind managed to pass to power supply from renewable sources. It demonstrates that shortly there will be a forced transition to new type of energy carriers what the most part of the modern industry is simply not ready to. It is necessary to execute a huge number of work for ensuring sure production of devices on production of the electric power from sunlight in scales of the whole planet. For this reason the timely actions will help to avoid global crisis and the consequences following from it which can gain catastrophic character.
Economic aspect
Most of inhabitants can compare the cost of heliopower stations to oil barrel cost in the world market. Often the ordinary person can come to a conclusion that the solar power can be considered only as a last resort in view of its irrationality. However in such reasonings the factor of a working resource of solar panels and solar generators is not considered. If to take into account that investments made in construction of power complexes of new generation even at the current level of development of technologies will work of twenty and more years, it will become clear that the prime cost of the developed electric power will be many times lower than current. At the moment the space agencies and rare design offices are engaged in development of solar power therefore rates of improvement of the industry lag behind desirable. It is difficult to present as far as progress in this area will be able to simplify production of the same solar panels and to reduce their cost.
Preventing to transition
The solar power everywhere meets difficulties of development in many respects thanks to power magnates, the owning mostly fossil resources. Transition to a new power source for them is directly accompanied by economic crash therefore they in every possible way interfere with development of the industry. The simplest example - mass buying up of patents for developments of alternative energy sources that slows down improvement and release in production of prototypes of the equipment. It is possible to claim safely that without such counterbalance the transition of the planet to independent power supply from renewable sources will be absolutely close to reality.