Yes. You're blowing up the security argument when really it isn't the security of it that is the problem -- our current infrastructure isn't more secure, and we have had only minimal problems with it thus far. The problem is the imminent and looming destruction of various thousands of ecosystems, and the continuing habitability of the planet.
It could be done. We got to the moon in about twenty years, which was much more of a technological leap than this will be. With the concentrated effort and enough propaganda, we could make the switch from coal/gas/oil. We are very rapidly running out of runway.
It concluded that there is literally not enough renewable energy potential in Great Britain (e.g., cover every square millimeter of space with solar panels) to do so at then-current energy consumption rates. It also pointed out problems with approaches like "giant solar fields in the Sahara" (the requisite solar fields are, well, roughly the size of Germany in terms of required area). Nuclear is technically not a renewable energy resource, but it does have requisite power generation capabilities--and very staunch anti-nuclear activism that makes expanding nuclear difficult.
All in all, quite an eye-opening read.
That is false, though. Just a little math shows why.
The UK is 242,500 km². Nameplate solar capacity on that would be on the order of 150MW/km², so 36 Terawatts. UK average electrical consumption is 32 /Giga/watts. Assume solar produces 1/4 of that 36TW on average when it's sunny during equinox, so 9TW. Even on a pretty cloudy day on the winter solstace in London, you're still going to produce at least 1/10th to 1/20th of that much, so worst case of worst cases (cloudy day on solstice) you're looking at 450GW average if you cover the entire UK in solar panels. That's still over ten times the UK's average electrical consumption.
(I used UK instead of Great Britain, but that doesn't make much difference.)
I mean, the overall point that you wouldn't want to power the UK on solar alone is totally and completely valid (and I fully support the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant, by the way), but the idea that it's literally not possible is BS.
It's an absurd claim to say it's impossible, and there's almost nothing more annoying than a source claiming to be "without the hot air" actually being full of plenty of hot air on absolutist claims like this. You don't correct BS by using equal and opposite BS.
(Most energy advocates I know do this... both renewable advocates and nuclear advocates, exchanging BS about the opposite technology. It's a clean energy circular firing squad, with the climate in the middle.)
The total chart at the end came out to <https://www.withouthotair.com/c18/page_103.shtml>, with solar making up about 68 kWh/d per person.
In any case, you cannot compare this to oil pipelines directly because we can stockpile oil. Even if all the pipelines are taken out, many countries stockpile oil that can bridge them over until an alternative solution is found. If a considerable part of the electricity comes from some remote site in a desert and the connection is taken out, that'll immediately plunge the country into darkness.
I like your optimism about all the problems being trivial, but with your mindset every problem we currently face is trivial.
At this point, why don't you just propose that we go and harvest Helium-3 from Jupiter? I mean, we already sent some probes that far, it's just some engineering issues, right?
There are a whole host of political, engineering and social issues that need to be sorted before something like you propose can be done. It can work for individual countries in certain regions, but it is not in a state where it can fix the energy problems of the world or liberate us of the carbon dependence.