[Kon5ole]

>I don't understand why it always has to be one or the other? Why can't we have both?

I basically agree with you but I think the other point here is valid too. Solar (and some other renewables) are so cheap they basically make it impossible to operate expensive powerplants, and then it kinda becomes a "one thing or the other".

To me it seems that this is a problem with the current business model, which should be adjusted. We should not expect to make money from producing electricity, but instead from consuming electricity.

Basically electricity should eventually be free, since we are in fact being sent orders of magnitude more energy than we need every day.

We have recently discovered how to harness this free energy very cheaply, but are stuck in business models from the time when producing energy was expensive.