"'Renewable energy' in a nutshell:

"You would have been better off just burning fossil fuels in the first place,” said one expert, “instead of just playing pretend. We’re basically just being fed a lie.”  https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2020/04/21/new-michael-moore-backed-documentary-on-youtube-reveals-massive-ecological-impacts-of-renewables/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

If your "alternative energy" cannot power the building of its own infrastructure, then it's not an "alternative" to hydrocarbons; it's a virtue-signalling luxury you can afford only through massive utilization of hydrocarbons.

The only proven alternatives to hydrocarbons are mass death in winter, mass poverty, immobility & deindustrialization.

Until you can survive & thrive for an entire year without consuming any hydrocarbon energy or products, don't pretend what you have are 'alternatives'.

I highly recommend @AlexEpstein 's book The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels for an eye-opening and sobering look at how indispensable hydrocarbons are for our well-being & how delusionally hopeless all the supposed alternatives are. Very different from the usual junk media's take!