It's not hope. Things have moved quickly. This discussion started with the false claim that solar needs sunny California type weather. It does not. Cleve Hill solar park will run as a for-profit commercial enterprise, without government subsidies. In cloudy UK. UK being located at the northern part of the planet.

> As Germany is going to find out this winter.

Germany's problems have more to do with the non-viability of relying on Russian gas than on anything else. You can predict things like the Ukraine war as well as you can predict an earthquake at Fukushima.