> if and when we make the transition to solar power and windpower
I love people who write about transitioning to full renewables as if it's something that's inevitably going to happen. Meanwhile, we still don't have the tech to make it even close to economically viable. Maybe we'll get there at some point, maybe we won't - but there's a whole subgenre of pundits who are already speculating about second-order consequences of such full-renewable world (in the same manner as in around 2017 or so everyone was speculating about the world in which self-driving cars are a reality, how many jobs it will cost etc.).
Also, the author is evidently counting wood towards fossil fuels, which shows that his understanding of what a fossil is is lacking.
They might be viable on cost per kWh basis, but you also need storage if you want to rely on renewable during off-peaks. Right now, there's no economically viable solution for it.
I love people who write about transitioning to full renewables as if it's something that's inevitably going to happen. Meanwhile, we still don't have the tech to make it even close to economically viable. Maybe we'll get there at some point, maybe we won't - but there's a whole subgenre of pundits who are already speculating about second-order consequences of such full-renewable world (in the same manner as in around 2017 or so everyone was speculating about the world in which self-driving cars are a reality, how many jobs it will cost etc.).
Also, the author is evidently counting wood towards fossil fuels, which shows that his understanding of what a fossil is is lacking.