Another dirty little secret is that the rapid advances in efficiency and cost effectiveness of both wind and solar are coming to an end, as they approach some hard physical limits.
A fundamental physics problem. Theoretical limits.
They have a little further to improve, but the large and easy gains are already behind us.
There’s a wind farm in Bloomington, IL where I used to live. The turbines revolve all the time, in fact I never see them stopped, even on days when there is no wind.
I say BS.
“A fundamental physics problem. Theoretical limits.”
No problem, the affirmative action physicists being graduated from our prestigious technical universities will solve the problems by the “it feels like this works” approach.