Reply #11: This is true. Renewable technologies are very expensive and are

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not really suitable for poor countries, except at high environmental cost, like the deforestation, and deaths from air pollution.

(The exception, as always, is hydroelectric, but these resources are limited.)

If they were suitable, they would be widely used but as always, the renewable fantasy consists almost purely of hand waving and wishful thinking.

In fact, the wind energy industry has been unable to deliver much more than an exajoule of energy world wide and it is the best of the renewable technologies. Further, wind power always requires back up power, which in a poor country is not cheap. I thought everybody knew that.

In Morocco, the amount of non-hydro renewable energy produced is 0.00065 exajoules. As is the case in almost every country on the planet, this is hardly sufficient to address the demand. In fact, if solar energy were to work anywhere at affordable prices, Morocco would be that place. It's a desert near the equator. The fact that it is NOT widely used there is an indication of just how divorced from reality the solar fantasy is.

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