Get informed about the true costs of “renewable” energy:

Biodigesters
This renewable energy system can truly help us live within our means.

Read these papers to learn more problems with “renewable” energy
https://www.wsj.com/articles/if-you-want-renewable-energy-get-ready-to-dig-11565045328
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/green-energy-revolution-near-impossible

“What is Energy Denial?” by Don Fitz, presents the 15 unstated myths of clean, renewable energy, 9.11.19: http://greensocialthought.org/print/1143

Tom Troszak reports how silicon wafers are manufactured for solar panels: “Why do we burn coal and trees to make solar panels?” 2019; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335083312_Why_do_we_burn_coal_and_trees_to_make_solar_panels_Thomas_A_Troszak_2019-08-31_revision

For info about perfluourinated contaminants (i.e. the GenX chemicals used by DuPont to make Teflon films for PV modules, please read XiaoZhi Lim’s article in Nature Magazine 2.13.19, “The Fluorine Detectives: Researchers are battling to identify and assess a worrying class of persistent chemicals:”  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-fluorine-detectives/

Problems with wind turbines also abound. They require neodymium and other rare earths whose mining leaves a toxic graveyard. Then, one turbine can weigh 150,000 pounds. Transporting this much cement and other material into rural areas can leave a town’s roads devastated (with no budget for repair). Blades produce constant, disturbing noise, vibration and shadow-flicker. See Laura Israel’s excellent 2010 documentary, “Windfall.” Note that when she finished this film, turbines were 400 feet tall. Now, they’re 600 and 800 feet tall. Problems have compounded, including what to do when a turbine reaches the end of its usable life. Each blade can weigh 22,000 pounds and be up to 300 feet long. Recyclers find few, if any, uses for the material, which can take up a community’s whole landfill quota. https://www.npr.org/2019/09/10/759376113/unfurling-the-waste-problem-caused-by-wind-energy

As Ozzie Zehner suggests in his book, Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism, “We don’t have an energy crisis. We have a consumption crisis.