South Australians, the world's
renewable crash test dummies, have just overwhelmingly rated affordability and reliability of supply as more important than tackling climate change in an online survey — but they still want their green energy revolution.
Proper use of gas and clean coal generation will be essential until
renewables and other forms of generation are economical, but South Australia's ideological crusade (which has turned the state into the world's electricity
crash test dummy, as I read somewhere) has meant that the lights will continue to go out during periods of high demand, with or without Elon Musk's Duracell.