I think it would be wonderful if we were able to achieve the energy needed to maintain our current standard of living from renewable sources. My point was that wind and solar will never come close to doing that.

That was literally the only point I made.

As of right now, nuclear fission is the safest, most reliable, and dense energy source of base load clean power available. Obviously, third world countries don’t have the energy grid to support the type of large reactors that have historically built in the past. Hopefully small modular reactors can change that.

Humans have spent roughly 4.5 trillion dollars on renewables like wind and solar. I’m that time, energy derived from petroleum products has decreased from 83% to 82% globally.

Wind and solar are intermittent sources of energy. They don’t produce power when when the sun isn’t shining or wind blowing. Furthermore, they require massive amounts of resource extraction via mining and refining to create the end product. After roughly 20 years, windmills and solar panels end up in landfills almost as large as the area of land they were built on.

I think they have place in the overall energy mix. But they produce very little energy, and there is very little “renewable” about them.