| For some reason I'm disinclined to trust a table that has "failed verification" next to almost every entry. Besides - EROI is almost completely irrelevant compared to more obviously useful metrics like cost per kilowatt hour. YMMV, but it's clear that renewables have the potential to offer very, very cheap and reliable energy. Someone always points out that wind is intermittent, but renewables currently have almost no storage, and oil isn't any less intermittent - as almost every major geopolitical event since the 1970s oil crisis proves. See also, what's happening in the Red Sea. Nukes? There's a reason that the recent string of coups in Africa has concentrated on uranium producing countries. The real reasons for hostility to renewables are political. If there's a robust wide smart grid for distribution, and everyone has PVs on their roof, the fossil and nuclear BigCos no longer have a monopoly on supply. They also lose the political leverage that goes with it. The fossil industry makes around $4tn a year in profits, and receives around $7tn a year in global government subsidies. That is a huge drain on the planetary economy, and a global renewables program would cut that by quite a bit. |