On the way to the End of Work with the coming of Free Shit where AI/bots/machines produce and manage everything.
Bots have no use for money which is good since The Unemployed won't have any.
I remember reading 3001 a space odyssey , where the author talks about this situation. Think about what happens when we cover the earth with panels designed to absorb and hold in heat. We take that energy in, absorb it, and it becomes infrared light, light that would have been reflected by not-as-efficient energy sources. So we don't really escape the issue in the long term, just shift it's cause. Still, better than global warming as it exists today, and I doubt that having solar panels spread everywhere will cause as much warming as fossil fuels do. And the issue-fix-issue-fix pattern continues.
We've heard this before. "In 1954, Lewis Strauss, the Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, promised a future of energy that would be 'too cheap to meter.'”
Consider the source. America's civilian nuclear technology cost a total of a trillion federal dollars yet delivers less energy than wood. The Economist says of nuclear power plants that “not one, anywhere in the world, makes commercial sense.” Hot fusion research has received billions of dollars of Government money for over 50 years, AND HAS YET TO PUT A SINGLE WATT OF POWER INTO THE GRID. There are tons of myths floating about, most perpetrated by pols and their minions. The above is a classic example. After all, what do they care. It isn't their money building these Roads to Nowhere