Considering the complications of abandoning fossil fuels

It was this book that left
Ugo Bardi with some
indelible memories.

I am writing this post just after having gone through one of the usual exchanges in the comments of a blog.

You know how it goes: it is based on the idea that "renewables will never be able to replace fossil fuels." The reasons are always the same: renewables are intermittent, renewables cannot provide liquid fuels, renewables cannot fly wide-body planes, renewables cannot do this, renewables cannot do that. And if we try to move to renewables, we'll go back to barbarism.

Read this thoughtful piece by Ugo Bardi on Cassandra’s Legacy - “Abandoning a fossil fuel powered civilization means abandoning civilization?”