News & Articles on Renewable Energy
My specialty is wind energy, but I have worked with all forms of renewable energy. Over the years I’ve written about a number of renewable technologies, including solar and geothermal energy. In recent years I’ve focused on comprehensive renewable energy policies that develop a mix of renewable resources. I’ve also written about our use of fossil fuels and nuclear power.
Paul Fenn Wants to Give Your Electric Company the Boot
By
Brian Eckhouse
He’s spent a quarter century advocating for making power a local matter. Now communities that want more renewable energy can buy their own.
KunstlerCast 298 — Solar and Wind in Vermont with David Blittersdorf of All Earth Renewables
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David Blittersdorf
“Grind up the SUVs and build wind turbines with them,” says David Blittersdorf, founder of AllEarth Renewables. Podcast with more provocative thoughts on renewables, transit, and energy policy in Vermont and the nation.
Environmental Costs of Electric Power Generation in Germany
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Paul Gipe
Oy Vey! It appears I’ve been following scientific estimates of the environmental costs from conventional electric power generation for at least 30 years. It’s probably been longer, but I found documentation that I’ve been writing about this controversial topic since at least 1988 when Olav Hohmeyer published his groundbreaking study on the topic for Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute.
New study: Germans still support the Energiewende
By
Craig Morris
The results of the most comprehensive survey of what the Germans think of their energy transition were published in November.
Response to ‘Burden of proof: A comprehensive review of the feasibility of 100% renewable-electricity systems’
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A more thorough review reveals that all of the issues have already been addressed in the engineering and modelling literature. Nuclear power, as advocated by some of the authors, faces other, genuine feasibility problems, such as the finiteness of uranium resources and a reliance on unproven technologies in the medium- to long-term. Energy systems based on renewables, on the other hand, are not only feasible, but already economically viable and getting cheaper every day.
‘We are the Energiewende’: German villages go 100% renewable
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Pavol Szalai
Neuerkirch and Külz are two small villages in Western Germany – of 300 and 500 souls respectively. And yet, they feel a part of something bigger that goes even beyond the country’s energy transition, the ‘Energiewende’.
