US Declares Energy Emergency

I”m completely reliant on solar, wind addition on the horizon at lowest priority as the wind doesn’t blow here enough to make a difference.
My reasoning was very simple, to get grid power would have cost approx. $60,000, and once in, PUD would have owned the lines. My cost for their benefit. 2 separate systems, one for well (that has since gone dry) and one for house use. $14,000 for both. Both are powered by battery banks. which is the long term expense. Winter with less sunlight availability requires me to run a small gen for 1-2 hrs every day for 3-4 months,(to many trees in the way) for the house or deplete batt bank to a level where long term viability is compromised.
Solar and wind have their applications, but on a national dependability and reliability level is a non starter. What are you going to run the grid on during darkness or inclement weather. Texas freeze up 2 winters ago proved that and it always happens everywhere there is complete dependance on solar/wind, or both. How many tens of thousands of acres are you going to have to have for battery banks, in each state, county, locality. To say nothing about the recyclability of both solar and wind being mostly non existent.
Ask Paris, France about the hundreds of acres of now defunct electric vehicles that can’t be used cause the batts are shot and non-recyclable.
And now ask yourself, if we are to succeed in eliminating petroleum products, how many of these composite materials solar/wind generation capabilities are made with derivatives of petroleum products, as in the majority of plastics. Now what are you gonna make them out of?
Industrialization of the world and advancement of technology with advancements in everything has been a boon for the human race. But it may also be our downfall. Perhaps in the long term, we are destined to return to a physical labor driven agrarian economy. Look at the Amish, they have made advancements yes, but they have never really left it. Just maybe there is a lesson there.