Shock admission from NPR: "the promise of renewables has consistently been oversold by the political class"

National Review: A Call For Energy Realism : NPR

Indeed, the promise of renewables has consistently been oversold by the political class. Solar and wind energy both suffer from major structural deficiencies. As Bryce observes, they are "incurably intermittent" and very difficult to store, and have low power density. Because of their low density, solar and wind "require huge swaths of land — which often becomes unusable for other purposes."