That's why photovoltaics need much more R&D. They are the only true advancement in electricity production since the inception of broadly adopted electrification.

Hey we burn things just for heat too.

I think to be more general it boils down to just oxidate stuff.

/pun intended

Boil shit, burn shit, and blow shit up. Humans in a nut shell.

Most of the biggest advances in technology is just about moving liquids. Rocket science is really just large scale HVAC.

You mean, how it will in 20 years?

Helion's approach is actually different. They are attempting to capture energy directly through induction. I hope it pans out for them, seems like a really interesting approach.

We can do it now, just haven't found a way to scale it and make it economical yet.

Then we're leaching off the sun burning atoms.

Solar farms did start out as using the sun to boil water. Basically mirrors redirecting light to a central point to super-heat a pipe flowing with water.

ACKSHUALLY you're not burning atoms in a nuclear reaction. You're creating a chain reaction of neutrons colliding with Uranium isotopes. No combustion.

Wind and hydro still have to spin a turbine. Solar is the one true stand out advancement in electricity production since we started using electricity.

To be fair, the atoms were going to burn anyhow. We just clumped them together to make better use of them.

Deadly, horrible waste product that is processed and made so safe you can literally kiss it. But don't let me get in the way of fearmongering.