Reply to the 'Comment on "Low-cost solutions to global warming, air pollution, and energy security for 145 countries"'

J. Goudriaan has written a commentary on our paper, "Low-cost solutions to global warming, air pollution, and energy security for 145 countries.'' In our response, we show that his claims are either incorrect, unproven, or irrelevant. As such, the conclusions in our paper still stand: transitioning countries to 100% wind-water-solar and storage for all energy purposes reduces energy and social costs, saves lives, reduces climate damage, increases net employment, and uses only similar to 0.53% of the world's land for new energy. Investments in new nuclear power, fossil fuels with or without carbon capture, and bioenergy are not needed in a transition and, in fact, are opportunity costs that will damage our ability to transition at the pace needed.