The National Security Case for Renewable Energy

If there may be one silver lining in Donald Trump’s war on Iran—for my money, the most purely deranged action by an American president in history, and that is saying something—it’s that it will likely speed up the renewable-energy transition. With oil prices spiking, nations around the world are being clubbed over the head, again, with the great vulnerability oil dependence imposes on them.

There is a workable alternative being deployed across the globe: solar and wind power. Progress...