Alt-energy contrarians very often make the same argument: "We'll never be able to supply all power needs from renewables. ESR said the opposite. The industria

Alt-energy contrarians very often make the same argument: "We'll never be able to supply all power needs from renewables. ESR said the opposite. The industrial base load is the life blood of technological civilization; without it, we’d have a hideous global population crash, and then revert to pre-1750 conditions in which the economy is almost entirely subsistence farming and life is nasty, brutish, and short. Hence, we could easily supply all of our power needs from renewables -- if we didn't mind getting medieval. http://pages.nyu.edu/~mg1828/color/gimp.jpg http://pages.nyu.edu/~mg1828/color/gimp.jpg