I've had my doubts about "replacing" fossil fuels with solar power & wind power for several years now. If these technologies made thermodynamic sense, they could easily support themselves and power their expansion as well, without the need for subsidies.
Instead I've noticed that the factories which manufacture solar panels & wind turbines get their electricity from fossil fuels, nuclear power or hydroelectric sources, not from solar panels or wind turbines already installed. Guess what? Oil companies have traditionally used oil to bootstrap the extraction of additional oil because it works thermodynamically, up to a poInt, without having to get subsidies which hide where the energy really comes from.
For some recent stories:
Dutch fall out of love with windmills
Solar power: Google pulls the plug
'Green' debacle: Tens of thousands of abandoned wind turbines now litter American landscape
Of course, the facts haven't stopped the Occupiers from adding calls for more "green energy" to their lists of ignorant & irrational demands.
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