Why has solar power never been developed properly?

Yeah...actually researchers have not done much progress in reducing the size of solar energy converting equipments. It aqires much more space.The availability of land will be the major constraint to the expanded use of solar energy systems because land is needed for solar energy, and this need cannot encroach on that needed by agriculture, forestry, and natural biota in the ecosystem. Our expanding human population can be expected to put increasingly great pressure on land availability and use. *Again, what u said,expensive and had many limitations is other constraints. If common man is getting energy by much less initial investment, why he will not opt that? Solar energy need wide scale application scheme granted by government, otherwise it will always remain as subordinate source. *Reserch in this area should be promoted on large scale to remove much of the constraints.

I agre entirely. I think that renewable power source mainly comes from the wind or water turbines nowadays but it doesn't explain why solar isn't popular. A few eco-freindly homes have solar panels for saving power in the house. What I think they should develop are turbines that are driven by wind and water but the blades are covered in solar panels so that its a kind of 3 in 1 machine.

I was hoping and expecting changes and improvements as well to the use of solar power. I think that it has not improved because it has not been given very much attention. You would think that more attention and effort would be done to increase the usage and make more things solar powered but I think that our government and President are spending too much time on the war efforts and other things. I certainly would like to see more effort in solar power.

well the prime thing i consider in its advancement is that the vast growing impact of other conventional sourses of energy is hampering it s progress!!!!!!!!!!!!the people r most accostomed to it and ignore it........there is a need to encourage the people abt the effectiveness and other positive side of the solar power......(plz rate my discussion)

well putting money into solar power to make it more effecient and cheaper and eventually more common place would be taking money out of bush's pocket seeing how his family makes a fortune from oil

the world nowadays does not interested in improving the solar power system because there is an alternative which is fuel.I mean big countries like USA try to find an easy way to cover the consumption of energy in their countries which is IRAQ and GULF countries!!

As a matter of fact solar power is being developed properly. industries now use solar power.denmark is the biggest user of solar power.the idea isnt ignored at all. countries are keen to switch to solar power. i admitt it is still a bit costly but an sure the costs will cut down in a couple of years.

well yeah its true,,,but in our country we need a lot of money to develop that..hope that it will materialize soon..coz it does really a good alternative for electric supply

One of the setbacks i believe is that solar power is something that has to stored, and it can only be extracted during the day time. Plus, there is the cost factor which comes into play. Lastly, the biggest problem which all the alternative forms of energy is facing is the corruption involved in the energy trade. Oil provides a lot of opportunities to people to get rich, i mean, the black money. A lot of governments are making tremendous amounts of profit by it. But still, there will be a time when it will be applicable in our daily lives.

I read this discussion several hours ago and because I've always had these interests as well I've come back to it. I knew a bloke who put all his savings along with a mate into a solar energy busines. It was aimed at domestic usage. Well, when I knew him one of his jobs was flying choppers and the other teaching middle aged women wishing to return to the workforce how to use a computer...this was back in the days of DOS. Obviously his little business venture went nowhere. I spoke to my friend (who is right into renewable energy) about it this evening and he said that because the gov't and big business didn't pick up solar power here in Australia, the businessmen took their sales pitch to China where apparently they are all for it. So, my friend at least now we know that in China, solar power is not a lost cause...lol.

yes solar power seems to be introduced to us a long before....and no more good news have been heard from then ...but i don't think that the scientists are not trying to cope up with this energy deficit...may be it did not yield any positive results.......

I think the biggest reason for this is once solar power collector is installed, there is not really much service involved after that. Your getting power right from the sun and you don't need anyone to run gas or electric to your house, they cannot charge you for using this service... So jobs and money would in essence be lost. Thus why I think corn or some vegtable will take over for oil.

I think it reduces the amount of money the government gets from taxes if everyone could generate their own energy through solar power and other, cleaner alternatives. They don't want to lose that source of income so they pull the funding from the research and put it into pointless things like war or the military. Recently, we've been hearing a lot about global warming and the things we're doing to our environment but the government does not take any actions to inform the public of their options. Take the electric car for example. 10, 20 years ago, it was all over the news as a good alternative to gas. It was cheaper to run, was much quieter, produced no pollution (except for the pollution when generating electricity) and ran a lot more efficiently than regular cars do (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_electric_vehicle). So why aren't we all driving electric cars? Because it doesn't generate as much revenue for the 'big shots' as regular cars do.

it is i think basically a money game problem! leaders all over the world have a lot of their own money entangled in power business. it is them who is stopping the development. it is like the zipper was invented way before it was introduced commercially because of the bigwig investments in button making. same thing happened with fuel injectors and carburators. these people will all of a sudden awaken from their slumber when the fossil fuel resources will come to an end and then they will mint money selling non conventional energy producers!

i totally agree with you, solar power is infinite and clean and completely free! i do not understand why more countries are making use of this pollution free source of energy and develop more efficient ways of tapping this power source

I also wonder why solar power has never been developed properly. I think a great use for solar power would be to keep cell phones charged. You hear so many stories of people being stranded and not being able to call someone because their cell phone battery wore down. It's such a waste of valuable energy when we don't take advantage of solar power. Lloyd

Its maybe due to some large oil companies that hampering its advancements. They might know if they allow the progress of using solar energy, they might have some problems with their own product.

Two problems are costs and companies need a way to make money off of solar power. There may be a new solution check out this http://www.jointhesolution.com/emswiler_ent It makes it easier for everyone to be able to afford it and the company can make enough profit to want to develope it.

Its price is just far too expensive and it makes common people barely to afford it on their income.I also think it will take much longer time for understanding solar power fully.