"Getting green energy to work, if this is even possible, is a different order of problem to the moon landing."

"Has Britain truly wasted hundreds of billions of dollars on useless green projects, because a bunch of British politicians wanted to feel like JFK?
    "Getting green energy to work, if this is even possible, is a different order of problem to the moon landing... a remarkable feat, decades ahead of its time, which to date only one great nation has achieved. 

    "But from the outset of the moon landing project, there was a plausible technological path to success. There were huge engineering challenges to be overcome along the way ... But in a very real sense, the Saturn V rocket which carried men to the moon was a massively scaled up version of genius American inventor Robert Goddard’s original Liquid Fuel Rocket. ... even in 1920, Goddard knew his remarkable technological breakthrough provided a clear path to spaceflight.
    "No similar technological path to success exists for creating a renewable energy powered economy.
    "How do we store energy for months, or years, to stabilise an expensive, intermittent source of energy which collapses in Winter, just when we need it most? Nobody knows how to affordably stabilise renewable supplies. There isn’t even an affordable answer to time shifting renewable energy into the evening demand peak, without burning lots of fossil fuel in the 'backup' generators.
    "How will future historians make sense of this blunder?
    "I wish future historians luck, I can barely make sense of it. Trillions of taxpayer dollars and pounds have been committed to the green energy dead end. The politicians who committed that taxpayer cash are only now starting to wake up to the scale of their blunder."

~ Eric Worrall from his post 'BBC Asks “Are the politics of climate change going out of fashion?”'