Hubris is what drives wild claims that we can run on nothing but wind and solar; a case of bullish arrogance outdoing starry-eyed ambition.

Net-zero carbon dioxide gas emissions target are all the rage. And, so rent-seeking crony capitalists tell us, the only way of satisfying those targets is by going all in with wind and solar hooked up to a few mythical mega-batteries – at a staggering cost to taxpayers and power consumers, of course.

As with most things connected to the climate cult, the targets are set decades in the future. Never making a prediction, forecast or promise that you’ll be around long enough to see fail or proved wrong, makes good business sense for any enterprise based on fear and falsehoods. Witch doctors and soothsayers set the benchmark.

But, even this far out, the targets are causing some to baulk at the scale of their ambitions. In…