Renewables are nowhere near what you indicate, that's the problem.
There is no future in which a Canadian throws up a panel and gets vast amounts of cheap energy.
Fission would by far and away be the cheapest form of energy: it's literally hot rocks that boil water. What makes it expensive is dealing with the radiation ans safety.
Fusion, without those artifacts might yield vast amounts of free energy. But we don't really know.
Wind and Sun are never going to provide vast surpluses of electricity, they're just going to help us come down a bit off of fossil fuels.
There is no future in which a Canadian throws up a panel and gets vast amounts of cheap energy.
Fission would by far and away be the cheapest form of energy: it's literally hot rocks that boil water. What makes it expensive is dealing with the radiation ans safety.
Fusion, without those artifacts might yield vast amounts of free energy. But we don't really know.
Wind and Sun are never going to provide vast surpluses of electricity, they're just going to help us come down a bit off of fossil fuels.