>>1467760>>1467813Windmills have side effects on the ecosystem. They're also crazy unreliable. Solar cells are useful (at a certain level, probably more so as cells get cheaper and easier to produce). Neither will replace fossil fuels unless we either solve the energy storage problem (unlikely, the physics is what it is and that means we'd have to transform half our mountains into pumped storage plants) or transform the entire economy to work on intermittent energy sources. There's ways to do that, but general efficiency and productivity will plummet.
>>1467774>Implying capitalism is the problemA businessman might sell you a 2 year toaster, but he'll buy the 20 year toaster if he can (and pay a fair bit of money to find out which is which). The problem is, our energy supply is being bought by politicians elected by soccer moms.
Altogether: let the market to solve the problem. Set the conditions for renewables, nuclear, storage, energy demand regulation and see what happens. If that's not fast enough, just increase taxes on fossil fuel. (But then we'd see just how dependent we are on them atm...) Tbqh I'm not sure if nuclear and renewables can offset the shortening fossil fuels, and the entire global industrial economy isn't going to collapse... but if we're to avoid it, a free market solution is most likely to do so.