It doesn’t matter if it actually works or not.
The point is to funnel as much taxpayer money to political donors as possible.
Bingo
Many of the consultants working on the Clean Energy advisory board exhibit a very weak grasp of scientific, engineering and economic principles. The don't seem to know what they don't know -- or it's something more sinister than that. Considering how DEI got shoe-horned into corporate board rooms by BlackRock, Main-Street and one other major investment firm, we can assume a similar conspiracy is underway with Clean Energy.
Actually, it does matter. The energy policy of the Left is no energy for the masses. So, if it doesn’t work, they support it and push it, if it does work, they demonize it. If wind and solar could be made cheap and effective enough to power a first world economy today they’d be protesting tomorrow over how expensive and dangerous to the environment it was.