The happy talk and blatherskite surrounding the practicality of wind and solar energy as baseload power for the U.S. is either naïve, delusional, willfully ignorant or all of the above. Politicians, environmentalists and even liberal arts graduates should know better by simply applying some fundamental calculations. When they do, they’ll find this as the bottom line: for the foreseeable future renewable energy will remain a pie-in-the-sky green fantasy, not feasible economically without huge public subsidies.