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The Myth of Renewable Energy

Posted by timothy on from the in-the-long-run-we're-all-exhausted dept.

Harperdog writes to this "Excellent piece by Dawn Stover about what renewables can and can't do. The sun and wind may be practically inexhaustible, but 'renewable' energy isn't. Solar, wind, and geothermal power are not fundamentally different from other energy technologies that consume finite natural resources. Good reading for anyone who thinks they know how to combat climate change."

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  1. Re:Real Question by buglista · · Score: 5, Funny
    If all the axes of all the wind turbines line up at once, it will act as a giant gyroscope and throw the earth out of orbit.

    Or were you actually serious?

  2. Re:Renewable or infinite? by Dexter+Herbivore · · Score: 5, Funny

    So GP didn't RTFA, you didn't RTFA. I guess everybody wins! :)

  3. Re:Renewable or infinite? by Adriax · · Score: 5, Funny

    Till you get a plant manager who feels inadequate as a man, who chops off the catalyzer to put in glasspacks instead.

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    I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it!
  4. Re:Renewable or infinite? by drb226 · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I know anything about the Human Race, it's that we can grossly mismanage things.

    Well, in our defense, we're better at managing nuclear power than any other species in the known animal kingdom.