Reply #22: Too simplistic.

[Deja Q]

Last I read, solar power optimally works when there's fully daylight. Doesn't work well when it's cloudy. Doesn't work at all during the night. Also needs oil to make the solar panels; they're not made out of tree bark.

Ditto for batteries.

We might miraculously manage to maintain our present nightmarish use, but we'd be prolonging the worst for a short period of time and fighting a losing battle.

We need a paradigm shift along with preparing for it and we need to do it 20 years ago. We really should have done this 20 years ago, around the same time Reagan nixed the alternative energy programs Carter had created! (who's the worse president now, it's not Carter...)