Wind, Water, and Solar Power for the World

By Verified Atheist on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 11:54am |

To balance out the pessimism* of Donal's German Army Report, IEEE recently posted an article declaring that we can get 100% of our energy from wind, water, and solar power. (Not even nuclear power is required.) I'm skeptical, but I hope they're right. It's worth noting that the IEEE is a technical organization (of which I'm a member), and does not have a particularly strong left or right bias (you'll find members with both strong left and right biases, however). I'm sure the comments will be as interesting as the article.

*Not to suggest that the pessimism is unwarranted.

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http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/wind-water-and-solar-power-for-the-world/?utm_source=techalert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=092211

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I'm a member of AIEEE*, myself. I'm not against responsible implementation of WWS. I am skeptical about keeping the grid going, much less a supergrid, but I like this paragraph:

To make a WWS world work, we also need to reduce demand. Reducing demand by improving the efficiency of devices that use power, or substituting low-energy activities and technologies for high-energy ones—for example, telecommuting instead of driving—directly reduces the pressure to produce energy.

*Architects Investigating Energy, Entropy, Etc.

by Donal on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 12:54pm

Wind, Water, and Solar Power for the World

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