People who go off grid, or passive or active solar, or wind, or wood stove know the impetus and feeling behind it.

Nothing compares to not being beholden to those who fleece us.

let us hope to quickly extends to the US

...certainly old enough to know that there is no "energy transition" and the result of the war, besides blowing people up, is to deprive poor people of energy.

We have been burning more coal, more gas, and more oil than ever.

As for solar, rich people can afford to buy natural gas and coal based electricity when the sun goes down, and they do. Some of them buy batteries, however, and brag about being off grid, this at a cost to human slaves as described in the book I'm currently reading, the contents of which I've long been aware but is filled with illuminating anecdotes of how the "renewable energy" slaves live:

The Elements of Power

Subtitle:

Unlike the antinukes around here, and the "I'm not an antinuke" antinukes around here, I give a shit about human poverty.

It is true that a lack of access to oil and gas is having a positive climate effect, reflected in the data at the Mauna Loa CO₂ observatory on the rate of the accumulation of the dangerous fossil fuel waste, carbon dioxide, small but visible, but unlike antinukes and "I'm not an antinuke" antinukes, I am less interested in rich people investing in semiconductor junk that will be landfill in 20 years, than I am in human rights.

An antinuke cheering for war is entirely consistent with the ethical level one can clearly recognize in them.

Rich people glibly cheering for the deprivation of the poor is hardly something unique to these times, but it's rather sad to see at DU.

I am not a straw man.

Concerned about poverty? How many nuclear power plants are popping up in poor countries? How about uranium mines? How about solar farms?

An interesting aspect of the energy transition is that a hydrogen economy driving production of hydrogen from clean energy sources could produce wealth in places like Africa, with a huge territory that could be devoted to solar farms exporting hydrogen, and places like Argentina with a very large offshore continental shelf in a windy zone (likewise Australia).

One commercial entity, Nexamp, sells solar credits at 10% off what the utility charges. (The utility reports usage to Nexamp, any “credits” the “customer’s" panels have rung up are applied to the bill. Then Nexamp charges for the credits at a 10% discount.)

A non-profit entity, Joe-4-Sun (a division of Citizens Energy) has a similar program, offering up to a 20% discount. In theory it is for folks with low incomes, but, really, all you need to qualify is a meter from the local utility.

Although I could pay less with Joe-4-Sun I choose to go with Nexamp. For one thing, Nexamp is plowing their profits into building more farms (expanding much faster than Joe-4-Sun and I want to see “community solar” expand quickly) but, also, I like to think I’m reserving the greater savings for people who need financial assistance with their electric bill worse than I do.

Fossil fuels are not only an environmental disaster, they are also an economic disaster and a security trap.

There is a joke that war is the way Americans learn geography. Apparently, it is also the way governments learn energy economics.