“The laws of Physics/Thermodynamic trump the laws passed by grandstanding morons every time.”
I took Thermo in college from a genuine card-carrying NASA scientist. He hated the idiot free energy nuts, what today we call The Greens. He had us work through every possible Green Scheme from electric cars to free air-conditioning from ground water. He had us make the most generous assumptions and then figure out the physics and the economics. Nothing, and I mean, nothing was more efficient and cleaner than the standard oil, coal and gas we were already using.
Right now, most of the Western world is facing a demographic suicide where fewer children are born. I think that directly relates to the cost of trying to do something that isn’t possible. People won’t have children if they can’t afford them.
“People won’t have children if they can’t afford them.”
This is mainly due to housing affordability, which can be addressed.