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10. 84% of my electricity is coming from "renewable" energy sources at this moment.

I'm paying 42 cents a kilowatt hour for that electricity.

At night our state burns natural gas.

All those batteries and stuff have only made electricity more costly.

The dollar cost and the environmental costs of energy storage schemes capable of displacing fossil fuels entirely would be entirely ludicrous. Places with aggressive renewable energy programs tend to have the most expensive electricity. It's not any kind of conspiracy. Integrating variable energy sources into an electric grid is expensive. Skimp on any of the required infrastructure and you will get widespread blackouts as happened on the Iberian Peninsula last year.

At this moment 8% of my electricity is from nuclear power plants. Nuclear power is the only energy resource capable of displacing fossil fuels entirely. That's the reality we live in.

It's always interesting to compare the carbon intensity of France and Germany. You can do that here:

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/FR/12mo/monthly

"Renewable" energy is great for the natural gas industry. Hybrid gas / solar / wind powered electric grids ensure we'll all be dependent on gas for a long, long, time.

Unfortunately there's enough natural gas in the ground to destroy what's left of the natural world as we known it and possibly take down our entire civilization as well.