...in spite of the fossil fuel industry's massive spending to slow the transition away from CO2, we are still being innovative and creative in the many, many ways we can power our society without killing it.

It's an even worse thermodynamic nightmare to generate heat from so called "renewable energy" than batteries or worse, hydrogen.

Where heat is the first step in a process of generating electricity, as in combustion or in the world shattering best case, a nuclear plant, it makes sense. This is the idea behind the Terrapower reactor that is now proceeding in Wyoming. It is, however absurd for solar PV and wind. As for CSP, nothing other than the case now observed, dangerous natural gas, will make that environmental disaster sustainable.