And a good thing, too, since this one's almost over.
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its just that we don't USE them enough, because they are often unreliable (Solar/Wind), expensive and environmentally un-good (Hydro/Nuclear) or just too difficult to set up in most areas (Tidal/Geothermal).
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Solar power is crap, agreed. You can either build the solar panels with a lot of shielding so they last a long time at the expense of efficiency, or you can do the reverse at the expense of having to put up a new panel every year because of decay caused by UV.
Wind, though, is fairly promising, albeit in a few locations. Why not put the big hydrogen plants there and then ship it all around? Hydrogen would be the perfect commodity to ship using pipelines, I think.
And, nuclear plants and hydro dams already exist, so the damage has been done.
Tidal and geothermal options, again, can be used where appropriate for large hydrogen extraction facilities.
There isn't any need to resort to fossil fuels, except the "need" to line the oil industry's pockets.
