Posts Tagged ‘Solar Energy’

The Holy Grail of clean energy economy is in sight: Affordable storage for wind and solar

Monday, August 31st, 2009
Enabling safe, clean energy that will never run out is a key to averting catastrophic climate change. Roughly half the “solution” to global warming is solar and wind [see " How the world can (and will) stabilize at 350 to 450 ppm "]. Of course, many U.S. concentrated solar plants will use low-cost, high-efficiency thermal storage . In the longer term, plug-in hybrids and electric cars are likely to play a key role in storage, if issues surrounding battery life can be solved and/or battery

Energy and Global Warming News for July 20th, 2009: Renewables surge to 11% of US power mix, as coal drops to 46%; Fish “shrinking due to global warming”

Monday, July 20th, 2009
So far, my call is right on track: “ I predict U.S. carbon dioxide emissions peaked in 2007! ” Year-to-date, coal-fired plants contributed 46.1 percent of the Nation’s electric power. In fact, Ken Bossong of the SUN DAY Campaign notes that in April, wind, solar, hydro, biomass and other clean energy sources that never run out hit 13% of total electrical ouput. Coal on the slide as renewables top 11 per cent of US power mix The renewable energy revolution under way in the US