Tagged “renewables”

a term for people who care about climate change and clean energy, but aren't "environmentalists"

Subtitle: Fossil-funded Atlas Network 'think-tank' disinformation is driving misinformed community opposition to the vitally important Illawarra Renewable Energy Zone

Electrical Engineer on power generation. Some runs counter to climate debates are out of date

What is my preferred path to a green energy future? I still see no fundamental reason to vary from Cornell professor Carl Sagan’s recommendations to Congress in 1985 :

• Solar power
• Safe fission nuclear power
• Fusion nuclear power on a longer time-scale

surprised by how much wind was in it

These emissions [for wind turbines, solar panels, and batteries] could amount to a cumulative 15-35 gigatonnes of CO₂ equivalent over the next 30 years: but that compares with around 40 Gt CO₂ equivalent produced every year by the fossil fuel based energy system.

cool new thing to worry about this week

Links to this Forbes piece, that 40% of global shipping is for fuel

have seen some worrying stats on slowdown of solar/wind rollouts, and some general issues with larger scale wind turbines.

Mind-boggling stats on solar and batteries. I did not know that we probably reached peak greenhouse emissions in 2019!