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While solar power is taking root in the sunny Southwest and wind power is growing in the blustery band from the Dakotas to Texas, other places are turning to trees and grass as their best bet for producing renewable energy, leading to a new building boom in “biomass” ….. MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s natural gas production declined further in May as the country cut fuel extraction sharply in response to plunging demand in Europe and at home while oil output held steady. …
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The Oil Drum | DrumBeat: June 2, 2009
Agreed these immigrants started off living like that, but do they perhaps underestimate the difficulty of “just” going back to it? The older ones still have most of the skills, but do they still have the tools, the familiar land, … And that’s where we’ll go with renewable energy . I don’t see Peak Oil as the end of the world, but as a new beginning. Wind power lights up my home and it runs the geo thermal system that heats my condo. Someday in the near future it will …
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The Oil Drum: Campfire | (Peak Oil) Ignorance is Strength ?
Here you are living through the worst recession in 80 years, and what is happening about renewable energy ? Last 3 months 2800 MW of wind capacity was built, another 3000 MW under construction. How does that compare with similar Q1 2008 …… I work in the field of PV ( solar panels ) and this is a perfect example of technology which offers nearly unlimited energy generation. Also, the energy intensity of computation (Watts per flop) is currently 100s of MFLOPS/Watt which …
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The Oil Drum | On American Sustainability – Anatomy of Societal …
check, and the grid investments are increasing, renewable energy still attracts fresh capital during the crisis, large investments in nuclear power are being done and the site for the high level waste repository will be decided …… Instead, Mr Rifkin suggested overhauling the technology of infrastructure and architecture such that buildings have integral power generation: solar panels and small vertical wind turbines on roofs, heat pumps harvesting geothermal energy in …
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The Oil Drum | DrumBeat: May 11, 2009
Critical to any plan that involves a large expansion of renewable energy is the expansion of the N American grid with long distance HVDC connections between regions of high wind , solar and hydro electricity generation and regions of high …. The technology exists now, and many electric cars models will be coming off of assembly lines in the next couple of years. Of course, electric buses, subways, and trains (noting ammonia is another fuel alternative from renewable …
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The Oil Drum | A North American Wind Energy Scenario
