PERHAPS SARAH HOYT WILL LET ME BORROW HER SHOCKED FACE: Renewable Energy Is Not as Clean as You Think.

Solar and wind combined account for barely a fifth of electricity generation define as renewable. More than 70 percent of it comes from hydropower.

That’s according to International Energy Agency numbers for 2015, the latest figures available. Hydro isn’t the only surprising energy source dominating renewable energy stats: In the U.S., Canada, the EU and China, as well as the global average, more power is generated from biofuels (such as the combustion of wood pellets in power plants or burning off landfill gas) than from solar panels.

So when talking about renewable power, the media might need to change their stock images from turbines and panels to hydroelectric dams and burning logs.

Save the planet. Build a dam.

JUST FIVE MORE MINUTES, THEY SWEAR: Wake Up — Mitch & Paul! Stop Snoozing, Keep Your Promises.

ANOTHER OBAMA MISTAKE WITH DIRE CONSEQUENCES: Iran says it can produce enriched uranium within days.

Obama’s nuclear arrangement (very bad deal) with the ayatollahs didn’t force them to give up capabilities and it imposed no penalties on the regime for belligerent misbehavior — like playing speedboat bluff with the U.S. Navy. Thank goodness for the USS Thunderbolt and her sharp crew.

GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK MOSTLY: Who Owns the Internet?

FLASHBACK:

ROGER SIMON: Trump Made the Right Decision on Afghanistan…and Pakistan.

BRUCE BAWER: In Britain, They’re Still Ignoring the Islamic Roots of ‘Grooming’ Gangs.

THEY DO NOT HOLD TO THAT: Joss Whedon fan site shuts down after ex-wife’s critical essay.

The popular Joss Whedon fan site announced Monday it is “closing down” and will become a read-only site “at some stage” in the future. The site was a discussion board hub for all things related to The Avengers director and Firefly showrunner, who has inspired a passionate and loyal fan community that few writer-producers in Hollywood can match.

Recently, Whedon — who has supported and espoused feminist causes and created strong female characters throughout his career — has been under fire among some fans after his ex-wife, Kai Cole, wrote a guest blog for The Wrap alleging her former husband is a “hypocrite preaching feminist ideals.”

The two were married in the 1990s, separated in 2012 and finalized their divorce in 2016. Cole accused her ex of a “secret affair” on the set of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and claimed Whedon “hid multiple affairs and a number of inappropriate emotional ones that he had with his actresses, co-workers, fans, and friends.” Cole said she wrote the blog “to let women know that he is not who he pretends to be.” Whedon issued a statement saying the blog “includes inaccuracies and misrepresentations,” but also that he won’t comment “out of concern for his children and out of respect for his ex-wife.”

Whedon is a talented writer and director of female-empowerment and libertarian themes, but that’s all fantasy and science fiction.

DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH: Erdogan to German Turks: German Politicians Are The Enemy.

The past year has seen the relationship between Europe and Turkey grow increasingly toxic. Turkey’s President Erdogan repeatedly used Europe as a foil during his presidential powers referendum. When the Netherlands forced Turkish campaigners out of the country, Turks responded by stabbing and squeezing oranges. . . .

But much of that animus seemed to be directed at achieving a specific political goal. Now, ahead of the German elections, Erdogan is taking aim at Germany, and by extension Europe, more generally.

It’s like they don’t intend to assimilate themselves to Germany, but rather to assimilate Germany to themselves.

WELL, WHY WOULDN’T THEY? Homeland Security secretary: Border walls work. Yuma sector proves it. People have been building walls for thousands of years for a reason.

FRED KAPLAN: Killing Terrorists Is Not a Strategy.

For now at least I’ll defer to Gen. George S. Patton: “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week,” and hope that Ralph Peters is wrong — even though on these things he usually isn’t.

OUCH: “Those sailors did not have the basic seamanship skills, but by God, they got their sensitivity training, they got their race relations training, they got their sexual harassment training.”

SO CHANGE THE LAW. WHAT ARE THOSE REPUBLICAN MAJORITIES FOR? ‘You’re Fired’ may be harder than Trump thinks when it comes to federal workers.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Mizzou suffering brutal long-term impacts of 2015 protests. “As classes begin this week, freshmen enrollment is down 35% since the protests, according to the latest numbers the university has publicly released. Mizzou is beginning the year with the smallest incoming class since 1999. Overall enrollment is down by more than 2,000 students, to 33,200. The campus has taken seven dormitories out of service.”

AT AMAZON, fresh New Releases, updated hourly.

Plus, today’s new Kindle Daily Deals.

And shop the Digital Deals of the Day.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Trump Hysteria and An Eclipse: Welcome to the “Crazy Years.”

UNWRITING HISTORY: Kasich Administration Quietly Removes Painting of Confederate General from State Park.

General John Hunt Morgan was memorialized for his failed raid into Ohio, which for thinking Ohioans might be something to celebrate.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION, ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN EDITION: EXCLUSIVE: Anti-Trump AG Raked In Campaign Donations From An Oil Tycoon With Ties To Putin.

AUSTRALIAN ALLY IN ACTION: An Australian Air Force KC-30A Voyager refuels a USAF C-17 Globemaster III. Australia also flies the C-17.

FLASHBACK:

SEMPER FORTIS, BUT NOT TODAY: Navy to Pause Operations, Review Collisions, With 10 Missing.

Navy Adm. John Richardson, the chief of naval operations, made the announcement about the operational pause during a nearly four-minute video message posted on Facebook Monday morning. Adm. Richardson said he also ordered a broader investigation.

“I directed an operational pause be taken in all of our fleets around the world,” Adm. Richardson said. “I want our fleet commanders to get together with their leaders and their commands to ensure that we are taking all appropriate immediate actions to ensure safe and effective operations around the world.”

Such a pause applies to operations and patrols of the Navy’s six fleets. Specifics of the pause are at the discretion of fleet commanders, officials said.

The loss of ten sailors and the disabling of a warship is serious. An “operational pause” for the entire US Navy is more serious — and lends some credence to theories that the Navy’s recent mishaps might be the result of a sort-of dress rehearsal for a digital Pearl Harbor.

LIKE ME, RALPH PETERS WAS UNDERWHELMED BY TRUMP’S AFGHANISTAN STRATEGY: I hope Trump is right (and I’m wrong) on Afghanistan.

SALENA ZITO ON TWITTER: “NOTHING HAS CHANGED SINCE I WROTE THIS PIECE A YEAR AGO.” Stumped by Trump’s success? Take a drive outside US cities.

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE, I KIND OF WANT TO BE NORMAL: Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill thinks ‘normal people can afford’ private planes.

Sen. Claire McCaskill thinks that owning a private jet is “normal.” So put your tray tables up, because her comment to that effect could cause significant turbulence for the Missouri Democrat’s re-election campaign.

When a constituent noted that affordable air travel and the American dream are intertwined, McCaskill replied “will you remind that when they come after me about my husband’s private plane? That normal people can afford it.”

But most of Missouri can’t jet set like the senator. The average household earns about $50,000 per year. Accustomed to the finer things, McCaskill used to fly home on the weekends on an eight passenger Pilatus PC-12/45, a turboprop plane retailing around $2 million.

And as the well-heeled McCaskill busies herself with rebranding as a hard-nosed watchdog, her recent private jet comment ensures she’ll catch populist flack.

Republicans won’t let voters forget that the senator was forced to pay $300,000 in state property taxes on her private plane. The electorate will be reminded about the fact that their senator had to repay $88,000 to the Department of Treasury for her fuel and pilot fees.

Me, I want a G5.