It is sobering and shocking to read that paper. The math is not difficult, and he displays the calculations for anyone to challenge.
And not a single locality, government, or agency ANYWHERE has seriously begun exploring and designing energy storage facilities of ANY kind.
Zero. Nada. Zilch. Squat.
And yet, like lemmings, our governments are actually, and deliberately rushing headlong to asinine Net Zero goals WITHOUT EVEN AN INKLING THAT RENEWABLES WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PROVIDE 24 HOUR DISTRIBUTION OF ENERGY.
What our own government, and others around the world are doing can be described with this analogy:
You are on a wooden ship at sea. You cannot reach land in less than sixty days at best speed, and pumps running to keep ahead of typical water inflow many wooden ships have (that is pumped out on a daily basis) will have no problem pumping out what comes in. Your wooden ship is in a stable state and should reach land in sixty days.
Yet, your captain orders that holes be drilled into the hull, introducing flooding.
The pumps, which might be able to counteract the flooding, are ordered to be taken offline at ever increasing numbers, and thrown into the ocean and destroyed. Those pumps, which will keep the vessel afloat against the incoming flood, are deliberately removed.
Now, instead of a sixty day target in which you will reach shore, that interval, as each pump is disabled, destroyed and thrown overboard, is decreased.
Your ship WILL founder.
When all the pumps are disabled and destroyed, your fate is sealed, and you will sink.
The pumps on the ship are our coal, oil, gas, and nuclear generation facilities.
The sixty day limit is the fabled NetZero target date. And they are doing this in the idiotic and immoral "hope" that technology is going to provide a miracle cure that will bail them out.