Bjorn Lomborg - Why solar and wind power aren't winning | Financial Post

All-in costs too high once you count fossil fuel and battery backups, land requirements and damage their equipment does

"...Imagine if a solar-driven car were launched tomorrow, running cheaper than a gas vehicle. 

It sounds great, until you realize it won’t run at night or when it’s overcast. 

So if you did buy a solar car, you would still need a gas car as back-up. 

You would have to pay for two cars.

Modern societies need power 24/7. Solar and wind power’s unreliable and intermittent operation involve large, often hidden costs. 

This is a smaller problem for wealthy countries that already have fossil-power plants and can simply use more of them as backup. 

But even in wealthy countries it makes electricity more expensive.

• In the world’s poorest, electricity-starved countries, however, there is little fossil fuel energy infrastructure to begin with...