Reply #13: sigh

[SchoolBoy]

I'm back from work and the dogs are fed.

"you're usiing past performance as a predictor of future performance"

I am not. I was explicit that 91.1% of today's energy is provided by technologies that you want to eliminate. Yet we have no evidence that renewables can scale up to those levels. That is the issue.

"why renewables haven't been deployed is common knowledge related to politics and Ronnie Raygun's dismantling of all Carter's energy policies except the support for nuclear and fossil fuel exploration."

Renewables have had increasing subsidies starting with the Energy Policy Act of 1992. We have seen the technologies of wind and solar vastly improve in efficiency. The low hanging fruit of performance improvements for renewables is mostly behind us. Both wind and solar can be competitive with fossil/nuclear when the site conditions are optimal.

But America, let alone the world, isn't covered with optimal sites, let alone optimal sites close to population centers.

So, can renewables scale up? Nobody knows.