> When the revealed policy preference of world leaders is to shut down the AC in summer in a desert, turn off the heat in a Scandanavian winter, and restrict energy supplies to developing countries, you don't have a workable solution.
Which world leaders have revealed these as their policy preferences?
They haven't. The actual policy preference is to build renewables, but it helps to use rhetorical tricks or cherry pick a few nutjobs to make it appear ridiculous in order to get to the desired conclusion that actually we shouldn't be building renewables.
"Revealed preference" is about revelation of your preferences through your actions, not about what you say. Politicians around the world have decided, through their policies, that grid stability and increasing energy availability is not important. Gavin Newsom has preferred to have you suffer through the hottest summer on record (and he knew the temperature was going to rise) rather than build a nuclear power plant. Angela Merkel prefers that you suffer through winter rather than recondition an old nuclear power plant. This is why it is "revealed" preference: it's not about what you say you prefer, it is about what your actions show that you prefer.
Edit: They also prefer that to coal power, or any other course of action.
You have fallen quite a ways short of demonstrating those "revealed preferences". All you have demonstrated is that those two people apparently don't agree with your preferred courses of action and that you don't have a particularly good grasp of how long it takes to get a nuclear power plant built in the United States.
> They also prefer that to coal power, or any other course of action.
Pretty sure Newsom is in favor of increasing grid capacity by way of renewables. Just because you don't agree with a course of action doesn't make it not exist.
Which world leaders have revealed these as their policy preferences?