The “renewables”/GangGreen crowd conveniently overlooks products produced from organic — crude & natural gas — fuels, here’s a refresher:

While wind and solar are lacking in density, they’re not lacking in intermittentcy, they also fail to deliver what organic resources deliver, to wit,from just one barrel of crude oil:
Enough liquefied gases (such as propane) to fill 12 small (14.1 ounce) cylinders for home, camping or workshop use.
Enough gasoline to drive a medium-sized car (17 miles per gallon) over 280 miles.
Asphalt to make about one gallon of tar for patching roofs or streets.
Lubricants to make about a quart of motor oil.
Enough distillate fuel to drive a large truck (five miles per gallon) for almost 40 miles. If jet fuel fraction is included, that same truck can run nearly 50 miles.
Nearly 70 kilowatt hours of electricity at a power plant generated by residual fuel.

There are enough petrochemicals left in that same barrel to provide the base for one of the following:

A petri dish with domestic crude oil being poured into it
39 polyester shirts
750 pocket combs
540 toothbrushes
65 plastic dustpans
23 hula hoops
65 plastic drinking cups
195 one-cup measuring cups
11 plastic telephone housings
135 four-inch rubber balls

The lighter materials in a barrel are used mainly for paint thinners and dry-cleaning solvents and they can make nearly a quart of one of these products. The miscellaneous fraction of what is left still contains enough by-products to be used in medicinal oils, still gas, road oil and plant condensates – an industrial horn of plenty.

Wind and solar? Some electricity when the sun shines and the wind blows. Anything else? Dead flora and fauna, oh wait, in the Coachella Valley wind farm, beneath the blades, Socal communities use the land as a dumping ground for old appliances, tires, cars and who knows what other flotsam and jetsam.

Anything useful, additive? Uhh, nope.