In response to your question more directly: renewables are not renewable. Solar panels need to be replaced every ~25 years or so. This makes them a kind of fu

In response to your question more directly: renewables are not renewable. Solar panels need to be replaced every ~25 years or so. This makes them a kind of fuel like any other. They just generate electricity slower and with lower energy particles so the frequency of maintenances shifts. This extra time affords it less risk, but with increase “rent” in the space it occupies over time. There is no such thing as free energy. It is a generation vs risk equation. I find renewables to be mathematically inadequate for existing and growing energy needs by every metric imaginable, save we are in space constructing a dyson sphere and harnessing all the energy of the sun. Perhaps then, optimized solar panels will be very useful. But given our time constraints as a species, renewables are a cliff. More importantly, they enable existing power structures to satiate public demand on taking action while simultaneously not realistically threatening the boundless streams of revenue from oil based energy. This provides a social comfort for them at the cost of our entire planet, and species, future. Greed does not care about the future. It is reactive. When the cliff comes, greed will not see it.