'Renewable Failure'

" 'The wind doesn't always come up when the sun goes down,' I point out. 'Renewables are clearly better,' replies [German-born green activist Johanna] Neumann.
    "She says we'll solve renewable energy's inconsistency by doing things like storing energy in batteries.
    " 'Well, yes, a battery that holds energy for weeks would make renewables work. But it doesn't exist. This is just a total fantasy, which is why nobody has done it anywhere, ever!' says Alex Epstein, author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels.
    "Fossil fuels are moral, Epstein correctly points out, because human flourishing depends on them."

~ John Stossel, from his column 'Renewable Failure' (hat tip His Van Horn)