I’m German and vaguely pro-green energy in general, but I’ve yet to see one piece by environmentalists that isn’t utterly confused by the difference between ene

I’m German and vaguely pro-green energy in general, but I’ve yet to see one piece by environmentalists that isn’t utterly confused by the difference between energy and power, i.e. how much electricity is generated at any given moment vs. how much is generated in total. You could have a magic fantasy technology that produces a trillion TWh for three dollars. If it were somehow limited to doing so for only 20 seconds each day at noon, it would be utterly useless to fill the electricity needs of a nation. In theory, you might overbuild wind power to the point where even if it’s running at 1% efficiency on a windless night, that would still be enough. I’m not confident that would work even if we dedicated the entire surface area to wind turbines and lived underground.