Back to your transition question. The industrial revolution was helped along by using concentrated energy. It is more difficult to collect, concentrate and store diffuse wind and solar energy.
DB2
The countries around the world are showing that wind and solar are cheaper and cleaner than coal. So I do not know why luddites do not see the advantages that power engineers have seen around the world.
Hydro, wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, and other renewables will rule the future with a little help from nuclear. Coal, oil, and nat gas will wither and die.
Jaak