What's always astounding is how much a person has to actually know to be as stupid as Ben Shapiro (and Matt Walsh, and others). They have to study and learn in order to misuse the things that they've learned. It's impossible to be this wrong on accident.
Man... even being as generous as possible, it's still an incredibly stupid point. "Renewable" doesn't mean "infinite". If something can only be renewed a finite number of times, or even once, then it's still renewable.
I guess on a multi-billion year time scale, he's right. Eventually the sun will stop burning and we won't be able to harness its power. Until then, it's renewable energy. What a fool.
Where does Mr. Shapiro think the energy contained within fossil fuels came from?
It's all the Sun in one way or another. Renewables just capture that energy more directly, effectively making them infinite until the Sun does out...
Unfortunately "Effectively infinite until the Sun dies out" doesn't have quite the same ring to it. Though you'd think you wouldn't need to tell someone as "smart" as Ben Shapiro about something so basic you can literally see it in the sky.
He's thinking of the second law, anyway. The first law is just conservation of energy and if anything that makes limitless power sources seem more plausible.