Not entirely disagreeing with your key point, but that's not what "renewable" means to me.
Renewable is about fuel, not generator.
If gas station turbine is compared to solar panel and windmill blade, then natural gas and underground oil are compared to sunlight and wind.
Underground oil and gas are limited resources baked many many millions of years ago, pretty much over similar timescales.
Wind and sunlight,for the purpose of this discussion, are self renewing - we will not run out of them.
Your discussion is more on how ecological the actual generators are, and that's a fair discussion to have, but comparison is not a wind mill blade and a car, it's windmill blade and solar panel to nuclear reactors and gas power plants.
Renewable is about fuel, not generator.
If gas station turbine is compared to solar panel and windmill blade, then natural gas and underground oil are compared to sunlight and wind.
Underground oil and gas are limited resources baked many many millions of years ago, pretty much over similar timescales.
Wind and sunlight,for the purpose of this discussion, are self renewing - we will not run out of them.
Your discussion is more on how ecological the actual generators are, and that's a fair discussion to have, but comparison is not a wind mill blade and a car, it's windmill blade and solar panel to nuclear reactors and gas power plants.