> Renewables are expensive to set up and scale

They are cheaper to set up at scale, but also work very well in a micro production / distributed environment (albeit slightly more expensive)

I understand your argument about space, you need a lot of space to harness energy, but we're now starting to see deep sea wind turbines, and Earth happen to have quite a bit of windy areas above deep sea.

Just the North sea itself could cover a massive portion of Europe's energy production (double digit)

Right, I'm absolutely not suggesting renewables aren't a great idea, nor that we shouldn't do them, nor that they aren't vastly superior to fossil fuels along basically every access except space (which, as you say, isn't as much of a problem as it might sound)

Just, fusion could be better _still_, if it gets off the ground. That's not a reason to not focus on what we _can _do now, though.

Fair enough!