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Distributed Generation Holds Promise, Faces Challenges

Posted on August 25, 2012 by

craigshields Posted in Renewables - Business

Those of us who maintain optimism for a future than includes sustainable practices in energy generation place a great deal of hope in “distributed generation” – the concept in which the model of buying electricity from huge utilities becomes increasingly …

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Life-Cycle Analysis and Wind Power

Posted on August 11, 2012 by

craigshields Posted in Wind Energy

I heard a really good talk about lifecycle analysis (LCA) yesterday that took wind energy as an example, and examined the overall ecological footprint associated with an individual large turbine. On average, about 7.8 megawatt-hours of energy goes into extracting the …

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