Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember The Natural Philosopher
saying something like:

No we don't. renewable energy is not usable energy at any scale. Its
pure fantasy to pretend it ever could be.
You're full of it today.
Tell that to the thousands of diy solar folk who are quite happily
heating their water for free and the cost of some recycled materials.

that not at scale. That's peanuts.

You said, "any scale". Now, perhaps you'd like to revisit the meaning of
the word "scale".

If you choose to deliberately misinterpret a fairly clear statement to
make a debating point, that's your problem, not mine.