The fact that HN is filled with so many who are weirdly against renewable energy is baffling.

Yo! Wake up sheep! Solar and wind energy are the two cheapest and least polluting ways we have of producing energy!

HN is kinda ground-zero for i-am-very-smart contrarians, so it's not _that_ surprising.

(Also, in the US, "solar panels take more energy to make than they produce" is a popular, although entirely false, talking point in right-wing media, so propaganda plays a part too. This claim has also been made about wind, and, bafflingly, _nuclear_.)