Europe Proves Renewables Are Not Ready For Prime Time

Someday, I'd think. Though probably in a major supplemental role. But not yet.

They're being pushed for political reasons, not scientific/engineering ones. 

I'd like to see the true cost per kW-h. 

Look, I, too, think renewables are cool. I grew up reading sci-fi like other red-blooded American nerds. I wish they could do the job. Economically. But they can't. 

This is one of the things that climate panic does--pushes us to bring alt-energy sources online before they're economical.

And, of course: what we do matters little given what China and India and the rest of the world are doing. 

And, of course: if we're serious, we should stop playing with cool toys and build nuclear.

So it seems to me, semi-well-informed layperson, anyway.