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Turns out that solar power isn't the cure-all and end-all of
long-term energy shortages
because the energy density, availability duty cycle, and collection
efficiencies are all low.
Furthermore, it's not clear to me that the energy required to
manufacture a photovoltaic cell, from raw materials to finished
product, would be recovered over its operation lifetime.
IMHO, using sunlight to make H2 will be a commercial success only if
photovoltaics are not involved,
when, not if, the energy shortage becomes acute enough to drive the
price way up