Posts Tagged by land use
Book Launch: “Is Renewable Really Doable?”
| February 29, 2012 | Posted by Craig Shields under Renewables - Business |
It’s time to launch my second book, Is Renewable Really Doable? on Amazon.com. The big day: March 15, 2012. I hope you will mark your calendar, and buy the book on that date.
To help generate interest in the subject, we have a giveaway: a hot new report called “Insights in LCOE – The Levelized Cost of Energy,” by industry analyst Mike Hess.
Before our society can decide on a certain course for its energy policy, we need to ask ourselves a central question: What Does It Cost?
Here’s a 32-page study, dealing with tough questions about land use, externalities, the safety of fracking, food and water shortages, climate change, transmission rights, smart-grid, efficiency, conservation, consumer incentives, carbon taxes, energy storage, health hazards, feed-in tariffs, subsidies – you name it. Read More
Energy Policy and Land Use
| June 1, 2010 | Posted by Craig Shields under Hydrokinetics |
The migration to renewable energy is complicated by a great number of factors in the renewable energy “triumvirate” -technological, economic, and political. The chart below shows one of many different dimensions of this complexity: land use – which, when you think about it, touches on all three. The data in the chart is derived from:
1) a paper titled Alternative Energy and Land Use from Clinton Andrews et al.
2) land intensiveness data from McDonald et al (2009)
3) land area data from Melillo et al (2009), and
4) global energy demand data from EIA
