The lure of coal and oil, is that the raw materials are largely free, paid for with government rights payments, which are a fraction of their value and obtained with the cost of extraction. That cost can often involve human costs. For instance the US coal industry once employed (around 1923) 883,000 people. But today it is a sorrowful employer of some 50,000. But employment in renewable energy is typically a far larger component of its absolute value, making it a win-win for any economy now that costs are largely in line with one another. Wind and Solar, like coal and oil, are effectively free, you just have to build something which will capture the energy from them, and pay…