Tag Archives: alternative energy

Antecedents — too much oil needed to make wind, solar, batteries, and so on

Posted on December 31, 2012 by

Fossil fuels are used in every step of every process AND as a component of material objects from plastics to medicine and 500,000 other products. Any kind of alternative energy you care to name requires fossil fuels from the very … Continue reading →

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Electric Grid Overview

Posted on October 23, 2011 by

Renewable energy to power civilization, augment and extend the fossil fuel epoch, depends on a reliable and vastly expanded electric grid.  There’s no point in even thinking about wind, solar, hydro, and nuclear power otherwise. A quick way to get … Continue reading →

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Wind power will not save us

Posted on July 10, 2011 by

SCALE.  Too many windmills need to be built to replace oil. Worldwide, 32,850 wind turbines with 70 to 100 meter blades generating 1.65 MW built every year for the next 50 years, or 1,642,000 total would be needed to replace … Continue reading →

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