Suggesting renewables can replace fossil fuels is ridiculous. Anyone remotely familiar with the power industry knows this.
Nuclear should be our base, followed by oil, coal, and CH4.
I am not suggesting that renewables can replace carbon fuels, but they can certainly carry a much larger share of the load. Why else did T. Boone Pickens buy or lease large areas of windy west Texas and promote major grid improvements from west to east Texas? For those who don’t know, Pickens is a very rich Texas oil man.