> Globally wind power produced < 0.5% of energy last year. Most people forget, or don't realise, that the current obsession with alternative energy is limited to parts of Western Europe and parts of the USA. It has virtually no traction elsewhere in the world.
Who cares about places that aren't Western Europe or the USA? Those places are technology followers. 15 years ago, the internet was only a statistically significant phenomenon in Western Europe and the USA. Yet other countries are now reaping the benefits of that technology. So to will be the case with energy technology.
> - Bankruptcies in Germany and Spain by solar companies are very much the cause of bad policies
This argument is non-sensical. STD's and babies are both caused by sex, that doesn't mean that STD's are the fault of babies.
> The correct response is to admit there is no current technical solution to affordable energy without burning stuff.
"Affordable" is a very relative term, especially when you look at true costs, including externalities, rather than just observed costs. Where I live (Illinois) wind power is approaching a factor of two of our average electricity price. Is that affordable? Almost certainly.
Who cares about places that aren't Western Europe or the USA? Those places are technology followers. 15 years ago, the internet was only a statistically significant phenomenon in Western Europe and the USA. Yet other countries are now reaping the benefits of that technology. So to will be the case with energy technology.
> - Bankruptcies in Germany and Spain by solar companies are very much the cause of bad policies
This argument is non-sensical. STD's and babies are both caused by sex, that doesn't mean that STD's are the fault of babies.
> The correct response is to admit there is no current technical solution to affordable energy without burning stuff.
"Affordable" is a very relative term, especially when you look at true costs, including externalities, rather than just observed costs. Where I live (Illinois) wind power is approaching a factor of two of our average electricity price. Is that affordable? Almost certainly.