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That's exactly what he is saying. Renewables deliver power to the grid.

What he is saying is that at the same time they provide power, they don't deliver energy (if you do all the accounting for the system).

This doesn't laud fossil fuels. This is only a critique on renewables if fossil fuel use is a negative. He is saying that renewables (right now) are a scam for being not enough of real solution to the problem of fossil fuels.

Do not mistake being qualified on using renewables as pro-fossil fuels. The author is actually saying renewables aren't automatically anti-fossil fuels and we are doing them wrong. He's calling for a clear minded adult conversation and not childish oversimplifications. As far as I can tell, he's saying this can't work if we don't get rid of "grid" systems entirely. We need a totally different system.

The problem is that people are fooling themselves about what is going on, really.