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But such scenarios won’t come to pass unless the administration seriously tackles the transmission grid problems that are keeping wind from becoming a nationwide source of green energy , according to panel of wind industry …… An energy infrastructure based in renewable energy is imperative to the future of the country. However, considering the development lead time of creating a truly renewable energy infrastructure, if LNG imports are cheaper than Oil imports, …
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The Oil Drum | Drumbeat: April 27, 2009
When all the sums are done, Mr Lamkin reckons his company will be able to sell electricity to California’s grid for 11 cents a kilowatt-hour, the state’s target price for renewable energy , while still turning a tidy profit. Icarus, anyone? …… BTW, it seems to me that any proposal for future energy be compared with solar / wind /HVDC as a normalizing parameter. What’s the ratio? First Question. Needs the first answer. That would put space power out of sight, right. …
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The Oil Drum | Space Solar Power: Star Player on the Bench
I mean 80%+ less. It is not very hard to do, as many off – grid types have shown by using 3kwh/day or as little as 1 kwh/day while living a normal modern lifestyle. (Compared to 30+ kwh/day for the average US home .) ….. If there are no major breakthroughs in energy -storage technology , significant additional expansion of renewable electricity generation will elude us. Even George Monboit maintains we cannot Can afford to reject nuclear out of hand. …
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The Oil Drum | What does Sustainability Mean for Energy?
Couple this with the large upfront costs in money and energy that wind / solar require and their slow payback rate I think even our current standards of living are impossible. …… For what it is worth, here are my calculations for Electric Car via wind power, based more on real battery car solutions today and assuming that the percentage of electricity generated on the grid is above 15% renewable sources (including wind ) which are prone to natural spikes and lulls in …
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The Oil Drum: Europe | The energy efficiency of cars
Living for a year or so in a tent inside their gutted home with only running water and sewage. No heat or a/c, power, telephone. Or in a trailer designed by the gov’t to be uncomfortable (FEMA spent a few million to make them easier to get people out of them) and poisoning them with …… The top ten US states have more wind energy than the top 10 solar energy producing countries (which includes the US – with a little solar energy than the state of Minnesota). …
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The Oil Drum | DrumBeat: February 9, 2009