> Well, when will solar power *be* developed?
> It's still in it's infancy years after
> discovery.

I don't know. Maybe you're right; maybe it never will be, even though it should. Maybe Travholt's vision of the future will come to pass.

I read an interested novel once by Larry Burkett called Solar Flare. I didn't think it was very well written, but the premise was interesting. In it, massive solar flares disrupted all electromagnetic devices on earth for a period of several months. Nothing electronic worked anymore, and society was suddenly plunged back into the pre-industrial age. Planes dropped out of the sky; cars died on the highways; mass transit and communication suddenly ended. People had to go back to eighteenth-century ways of doing things. Eventually, the solar flares died down and technology returned, but a lot of people didn't want to go back to their old (new) lifestyles.