Replacing fossil fuels with what??? I am going to power my Mack truck with solar...or maybe a little diesel hybrid electric?? Yeah, that sounds like good food for the zero-information liberals to push.
Except that it is politically incorrect, nuclear is the best alternative to coal and even natural gas which can be diverted to transportation. Eventually it will be necessary. Research into clean coal should continue. There are a lot of people to be provided transportation and electricity.
Thank you for your continued support of the environment and the planet.
In the final analysis, all energy is solar. Wood, petroleum etc. are just different forms of stored solar energy. Even hydro’s root source is the sun. The energy you expend walking originally came from the sun, was stored in plants that you consume directly or in the meat from animals who converted it from the plants they eat.
Eventually, solar energy and storage battery technology will mature to the point where it is more efficient and economical than fossil fuels. At that point, fossil fuels will cease to be the major source of energy.
No matter how much we like the smell of gasoline and the roar of turbocharged internal combustion engines (Nothing like the sound of an Offenhauser running at redline), they will ultimately be replaced by the clean silence of solar electric power and the culture will adjust. NASCAR will never be the same.