Sounds like an oxymoron ... you can’t renew energy. Physics says you can’t. Once you transform energy, i.e. give up heat when it’s transformed, you can’t get it back. Burn coal to produce electricity, you can’t use its remains for energy ... unless I’m totally missing something here ....
Well, when the sun evaporates the water it goes back up and falls down as rain or snow. Then it gets captured and operates a bunch of huge turbines.....Oh wait...
You can’t have hydroelectric power, somehow it’s not “green”
While you are correct the term comes the ability to get energy from things that already exist and don’t have to be transformed in order to create the energy. Hydro dams where the water already runs, the sun whose light is carried to earth everyday, etc etc etc.
Although my Dad told me the other day that oil is looking increasing likely that it is produced deep within the planet’s mantle and forced back into the pockets from which we drilled from. If that’s the case they would probably have to consider it renewable as well.
You are not, but they are... a little thing called common sense.