Renewables can be said to swap one fuel dependence for another. Although, this is even oversimplified since in our current reality, and for the foreseeable future, renewables depend entirely upon hydrocarbons and the military-industrial complex for their existence–they are a ‘parasite’ on the hydrocarbon economy and cannot be built, deployed, maintained, or decommissioned without the hydrocarbons they purport to replace and the military-industrial complex they suggest can be avoided. This is not a transition but a complex symbiosis