On Tuesday, 5 June 2018 14:27:42 UTC+2, Gary Harnagel wrote:

As I have demonstrated, you are dead wrong about that.

Take away your obvious bias and what do you have left? An self-declared belief in unicorns.

The "alternatives" offer lots of good ways of spreading the gift of cleaner energy with a largely deprived, global population. Affordable energy frees children from slavery to study by artificial light. It allows women to avoid a long walk to the ever dwindling forest to gather fuel for the open fire in the center of their crowded hovel.

Your way ensures most of the planet endures decades more "exhaust" pollution and the well known health issues. Your way ensures despots around the world can afford armed forces and security services to keep billions of real people suppressed. All paid for with oil paid for by Western democracies. Sauce for the goose? Or are they mostly too black and too far away for your knee-jerk, Christian values to kick in?

Your way ensures the entire world has its nose to the grindstone to pay for constantly escalating, quarterly "energy" profits. Your way ensures massive inequality around the globe while the billionaires crush any political "wavering" against _their_ status quo. Your way ensures women will remain downtrodden, third class citizens. Barely existing in an underclass below the social status of men's pets and their expensive toys.

You do the maths. China thinks the maths of "alternatives" makes good sense.. Why are Western countries targeting solar panels for importation charges? Why are they not jumping at the chance to get cheaper solar panels on every roof? They don't make any themselves so it's not a competition. Do they look at flat TV panels the same way?

Democratization of energy production away from big corporations would seem beneficial to the masses. Energy poverty is a chronic Western disease as well. Countless pensioners die of cold each year in Europe. So what political pressures are _really_ at play here? DO they hope for an early "expiry date" to save on government pensions?

Your maths is only good for counting your "allowance" from a dirty energy provider. How else can you demand a century's delay in tackling _today's_ very real social issues? Or are all those black people to far away to be worthy of your empathy? Sympathy would typically be expecting rather too much from a "practicing" Christian. What does an expert Christian look like? A bit too much like your fabled Jesus?

Why are solar panels only fitted on upper middle class homes enjoying generous feedback tariffs? When the vast majority of ordinary people cannot even borrow the cost of installation from the bank? To be guaranteed full repayment and a nice profit on their borrowed "investment" in only three to five years? Why was it far too expensive to maintain this guaranteed investment for the "lower orders?" A few solar panels on posh roofs doesn't dent AGW. It empowers the already wealthy. A big, fat, tax cut on _their_ cost of living. To be spent on further, imported luxuries.

One man's Tesla S is a mere gnat bite on AGW's bum. A billion electric cars, charged with wind and solar, will change global society in far more ways than we can possibly imagine. Solar could ease the damage to society from the coming AI robots. Mass unemployment can be turned into productive creativity when the millstone of paying through the nose just to keep warm [or cool] is lifted.