Here’s a conversation that I thought readers may enjoy: Craig: (Writing to a reader who claims that wind and solar would require all the lands in PA, OH, and VA in order to achieve 99.9% reliability.) No one advocates using wind …
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Another fellow from the pro-nuclear energy group writes more on his “anti-wind” viewpoints: I crunched a lot of numbers relating to the Budischak & Kempton 2013 study of cost minimization using wind, solar and storage technologies, which study was well …
In response to my post on wind’s energy return on energy investment (EROI), the same reader writes: I am very, very skeptical about numbers you quoted for wind (15:1 to 30:1). Lots of really bright people are wrong about …
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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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Denmark is an early adopter of wind energy Despite the country has modest wind resources compared to other countries, it manages to capture the power of the wind with remarkable success. A key factor for the success is the early …
A part of the Canary Islands, 1000 kilometers out into the Atlantic off the coast of Northern Africa, El Hierro is literally never front-page news, or even back-page news. In fact, with a landmass of 107 square miles and a …
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Here’s a concept that I thought readers would find interesting. The air that comes out of ducts in industrial and commercial buildings has a certain amount of kinetic energy that is wasted. Believe it or not, the air that is …
In a discussion of one of our cleantech investment opportunities that happen to implement wind energy with compressed air energy storage, a friend writes, “compressed air as a storage medium is a commodity along with other storage mediums, so the success …
I’m very fond of the people at AWEA, the American Wind Energy Association, and I’m also quite keen on well-made infographics that speak to the job growth potential represented by the wind industry, and by renewable energy more generally. For …
There are many reasons (eleven to be precise) that I believe the migration to renewable energy is happening far faster than most people understand. Thus, the name of my current book project: “Bullish on Renewable Energy – Eleven Reasons Why …
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