>>213739485 (OP)
it's fucking retarded
wind/solar are unreliable, you need to balance an electric grid precisely and second-by-second, solar/wind are massive problems if they make up a large proportion of your grid because their power generation is all over the place
you NEED baseload power, and for that, nothing beats coal and nuclear. Nothing beats the reliability and consistency of a massive steam turbine.
>they're cheap
it's a pack of lies. Solar plants doctor their numbers all over the place, they place negative electric price bids in the system when they have power and the rest of the time they can't provide shit. ANY claim that renewables are cheap ignores a ton of complicating factors for wind/solar, mainly to do with the unreliability and dealing with it. Running a power grid on them is NOT cheap. You are a million times better off with coal or nuclear.
also all the panels are kaput after 20 years, the chemicals in them (lots of child-slave mined heavy metals) can't be economically recycled and end up in landfill (or worse)
meanwhile a nuclear or coal plant will happily run as long as you care to maintain it
>>213739843
100% this