An old school chum shared this piece of excrement on Facebook just now, to which I responded: It pains me greatly to see disinformation like this spread around.
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Renewable Energy Products that Cause Embarrassment To the Industry
One of the challenges facing solar and wind energy is capacity factor, i.e. the ratio of the total energy generated by a device to the total energy that it’s potentially capable of generating (multiplied by 100, to make a percentage). …
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For the Environment, There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
There are so many things we can do in our personal and professional lives to improve environmental sustainability that it’s impossible to count them all. Similarly, there are many different flavors of renewable energy, all vying for dominance in our …
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Does Wind Energy Require More Energy to Build, Install and Maintain Than It Produces?
I wrote a post earlier in which I pointed out that solar and wind are valid energy resources even though they are variable. In response, a reader writes: Craig, have you ever looked into the CO2 burden that wind has …
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Ozzie Zehner's Book "Green Illusions"
Here’s a lecture by Ozzie Zehner, whose popular book “Green Illusions” is making the rounds. Indeed, there is a great deal of truth here. In particular, we’re seduced by the sexiness of renewable energy, and in some cases make extremely …
