Too bad the economy can't convert empty office space to wind farms cheaply.

...toward assisting with the start up costs involved for the budding clean energy industry, but it's obvious we will also need private investment capital to jump on board.

With a strong enough push to make it very obvious that fossil fuels will be replaced by these young companies, more and more investors will realize that the potential profits of all these companies (that are individually so much smaller than the oil giants) will be virtually endless once we're safely past the clutches of the fossil fuel barons.

Large scale solar and wind development are entirely dependent on fossil fuels, especially natural gas, for their economic viability. In the long run they will do nothing to reduce the total amount of greenhouse gasses humans dump into the atmosphere and oceans. It's clear to me that the fossil fuel companies know this.

In the short run wind and solar power are capital intensive. For every nameplate megawatt of solar or wind power you install and maintain you also have to install and maintain a megawatt of so-called backup power. Based on real world experience this backup power generally becomes the primary energy source simply because the sun's not shining brightly and the wind's not blowing briskly most of the time.

The entire wind industry is held together by accounting tricks, wishful thinking, and it's value as greenwash.

If the wind industry collapses tomorrow the negative environmental impacts on a global scale will be insignificant, and the environmental impacts on a local scale will be substantially positive.

Wind energy is not an existential threat to the fossil fuel industry and never will be.

We need to be promoting social, environmental, and energy policies that actually are existential threats to the fossil fuel industry.

Please, take just a little while, to do a bit of reading.

Start here: NREL: 100% Clean Electricity by 2035 Study

“I have a way to save all life on the planet, but I haven’t figured out how to make money from it yet… Damn! I guess we can’’t do it…”

A century ago, the federal government thought it might be handy to have a decent network of roads in the United States. They would be built "on the taxpayer’s dime.” They were a tremendous success, and made a significant contribution to the climate crisis. Why are we depending on for-profit ventures to build a new energy system?