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At present solar power is effective and economical for supplemental water heating on a house per house basis even in areas without that much sunlight.
Solar powered electricity generation is at present not efficient enough in terms of the energy requirement required to build the panels or whatever except in very sunny areas.
That is not to say the technology cannot be improved. Without large scale experiments like the one you mention then it would be hard to advance the technology or even assess its' viability.
How much money was spent on fission research before a single watt of power was produced from a fission generator?
Also dub, you have failed to factor in the cost of cleaning up after nuclear and fossil fuel power generation.
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