By: Tom D. Tamarkin & Barrie Lawson Over the next 50 years, utility companies in the United States must replace approximately 440 Gigawatts (GW) of baseload generation capacity to provide…
Category: solar power
Obama May Finally Succeed!
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach For this post I’ve taken as my departure point a couple of very interesting graphs from over at Not A Lot Of People Know That.…
Making better solar panels by mimicking butterfly posture
From the UNIVERSITY OF EXETER Butterflies heat up the field of solar research The humble butterfly could hold the key to unlocking new techniques to make solar energy cheaper and…
Solar Fossil Fueled Fantasies
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach. Sometimes when I’m reading about renewable technologies, I just break out laughing at the madness that the war on carbon has wrought. Consider the Ivanpah…
Solar plane flight aborted due to bad weather
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Solar Impulse 2, an attempt to raise awareness of the environmental issues, by flying around the world the world using solar energy, has been…
Tesla announces low cost batteries for off grid homes
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Elon Musk has announced the release of a new storage battery for home use. The new battery in principle dramatically reduces the cost of going…
Test at Tonopah solar project ignites hundreds of birds in mid-air
Uh, oh. From NatureWorldNews “It’s no secret that solar power is hot right now, with innovators and big name companies alike putting a great deal of time, money, and effort…
Sanity: Subsidies for solar farms to be cut to help safeguard farmland
From:Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and The Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP New rules will ensure more agricultural land is dedicated to growing crops and food Farmers will…
Friday Funny – Renewable Energy Fails Protesters Calling for More Renewable Energy
Oh, this is precious. In Madison, Wisconsin, demonstrators gathered outside the Public Service Commission to protest against a requested rate structure change by the local utility company, Madison Gas and…
Analysis: Solar & wind power costs are huge compared to natural gas fired generation
Ed Hoskins has done an analysis of cost ratios, and no matter what your viewpoint of economics might be, the numbers here don’t lie. Without being propped up by subsidies,…
How not to do a solar power project – great moments in solar engineering
Regarding this article, I think I’ve found a simple reason for this failure, and the reason will shock and surprise you. In the article, a news report by TV station…
A birds-eye view of the bird scorching Ivanpah solar electric power plant
At the start of the weekend, and quite by accident, I found myself aloft and looking directly into the glare of the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System. I can tell…
Nobody expects the Spanish solar inquisition!
Over at Bishop Hill, there’s a story about an inquisition into the Spanish solar power industry, which was so heavily subsidized and the price being paid for solar power feed-in…
Capture the Sun & Power America With Solar – Is There a Business Case?
Guest essay by Philip Dowd Whenever the subject of renewable energy comes up, the conversation usually turns to solar. You hear statements like: “The world receives more energy from the…
California's future energy pipe dream
I wonder how they’ll manage to put 25,000 offshore wind turbines in place after seeing the long battle (back to 2001 for the first permit) to get Cape Wind in…
The stark reality of green tech's solar and wind contribution to world energy
Summed in in one graph that says it all.
Renewable Energy Poses Security Risk, New Paper Warns
London, 2 June: A new paper published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation warns that intermittent wind and solar energy pose a serious energy security risk and threaten to…
Renewable Energy in Decline
By Steve Goreham Originally published in Communities Digital News. The global energy outlook has changed radically in just six years. President Obama was elected in 2008 by voters who believed…
Do the Math: Solar Panels and Hockey Sticks
Guest essay by Chris Yakymyshyn Vermonter Bill McKibben was recently quoted in Salon Magazine: “The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When I’m home, I’m a pretty…
Claim: Let's put batteries on wind and solar farms
From Stanford University Stanford scientists calculate the energy required to store wind and solar power on the grid Renewable energy holds the promise of reducing carbon dioxide emissions. But there…
Lomborg: Renewables are stuck, although green hopes keep rising
Guest essay by Bjørn Lomborg Globally, renewables have been *declining* for the last two centuries, and have remained stuck at about 13% for the past 40 years. People expect them…
DOE Green Energy Loans: $11.45 million per job and a rounding error's worth of averted carbon emissions.
Guest Post by David Middleton The cost of each taxpayer-financed green energy job created since 2009: $26.32 billion divided by 2,298 jobs = $11.45 million per job… Green energy jobs…
Solar panels as inexpensive as paint?
This would be nice, except this idea keeps surfacing every couple of years, and I’ve yet to see one actually become viable. – Anthony “Organic photovoltaics can be fabricated over…
An update on my solar power project – results show why I got solar power for my home (hint: climate change is not a reason)
UPDATE: I’ve answered questions from commenters below in the FAQs, and added additional diagrams – Anthony Much to the chagrin of people who are sure I’m evil, in the pocket…
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