The author calls 100% wind-and-solar climate policy an “illusion”: industrial grids need unwavering baseload, weather does not supply it, and multi-day Dunkelflaute storage would demand battery and mineral scale he says is economically and geopolitically unreal—trading an atmospheric problem for a mining one.

Germany’s Energiewende is the case study: huge spend on wind and solar, early nuclear shutdowns, among the world’s highest industrial power prices, and lignite when the wind drops. AI data centers that run 24/7, he argues, make low-EROI intermittent-plus-battery grids even less viable.

The prescribed fix is a nuclear renaissance, especially SMRs: dense, dispatchable, small-footprint, able to use existing grid connections for industry, desalination, and the digital economy. Nations that skip firm clean power, he says, get instability, high prices, and industrial flight.

For over a decade, a comforting illusion has dominated global climate policy: the belief that the modern economy can operate entirely on wind and solar power. It is an appealing narrative, heavily marketed by environmental lobbies and enthusiastically adopted by politicians seeking rapid green credentials. However, when this “100% renewable” utopia is subjected to the cold, unforgiving arithmetic of energy economics and grid engineering, the narrative rapidly collapses.

The foundational flaw in the purely renewable model is the physics of intermittency. Modern industrial economies demand a........

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