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It definitely could be in a few decades. The sun dumps an enormous amount of energy on the planet every day; it probably showers us with the equivalent of every available fuel source on Earth over the course of a week. There are a lot of significant hurdles to overcome in getting there, the largest of which isn't technological: there's really no money in a renewable source like that. Nuclear could easily solve our issues until then, especially breeder reactors, but along with not nearly enough money or control, whiners will point out that the nuclear material could be stolen to fuel weapons (as if it's all that easy).The fact that he thinks solar power is THE definitive future of energy is smoking gun proof that he doesn't actually know shit about engineering and his tech companies are all successful in spite of him, not because of him
So Elon's not exactly wrong here about solar, just he likely overheard some engineers talking about its potential, copied the big words they used, and smugly ran with it as if he really understands it all.
I wonder how quickly people that work with him/alongside him want to punch him in the face.