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Since this is getting overly long, I won't bother to quote individual messages, but there are a few points that need elaborating.
First, claims that e.g. Denmark gets 20% of its electricity from wind or Germany gets whatever percent from renewables ignores the fact that these countries aren't electrically independent. They're all interconnected in the European grid, the UCPTE system. That means that while Denmark may very well get 20% of its electricity from wind when averaged over the course of a year, it's only able to do this because it has the grid - French nuclear plants, Swiss hydro, everyone else's coal & natural gas - to draw on when the wind isn't blowing. This is a perfect example of the point I've been trying to make. Denmark (which is only a small fraction of Europe) can float its 20% wind on the system because of all the other reliable generation out there. If the grid doesn't have that reliable generation, it doesn't work.
As for the Arab/racism question, it actually has little to do with race or nationality (and that at second hand). It's about religion: those people have chosen to follow a religion which tells them to attack & subjugate unbelievers. It's not "terrorism", either: that's just a tactic that some of the jihadists have chosen to use at this point in time.
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