Christopher Columbus discovered the New World with "alternative energy." No energy source has a monopoly on virtue - and we're best off with a broad energy mix to play off against one another.
There is no virtue here. It is a con. Always has been. The only way alternative energy is competitive is to steal money from citizens to give to alternative energy sources and artificially raise the cost of real energy sources to make the sky high cost of alternative energy competitive. And the people at the top get rich but they didn’t earn it.
I will buy your argument as long as the alternative energy does not need a subsidy or regulations against either form of energy production.
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Yes, and since Columbus’ mode of sea travel is not subsidized by taxpayers money it's not used to transport goods where it is less efficient than other forms of energy. The MARKET, and commonsense, makes those decisions as to how to power sea transport — and that's the way it should be.
And that's also how decisions should be made regarding power generation; anything else results in misallocation of scarce resources and economic inefficiencies.