Elon Musk: Solar Will Beat Everything Hands Down

Elon Musk in 2013: I'm confident solar will beat everything hands down.

“I'm quite confident that the primary means of power generation will be solar. Indirect fusion is what it is. We've got this giant fusion generator in the sky called the sun, and we just need to tap a little bit of that energy for purposes of human civilization.

What most people know, but don't realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn't there, we'd be a frozen ice ball at 3 degrees Kelvin and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation.

I'm confident that solar will beat everything hands down, including natural gas.”

From: TED Conversation 2013 March 19, 2013