I actually disagree with your assumption . You assume that steel mills and the like have to either use onsite coal or gasbased generation , which they don ' t , or that they use so much power that it can ' t be provided by clean sources , which , again , they don ' t . Texas alone has served half of its load and can serve about a quarter of its record high load with wind alone . Ten years ago that number seemed ludicrous . If wind and solar continue on their current path , the worry for first world grids isn ' t having enough clean energy , it ' s having enough inertia to sustain G 1 security . It ' s also a little childish to make the presumptions about Americans that you did . It really invalidates your point and discredits you as a critic .