Why Alternative Energy can’t replace fossil fuels
Alice Friedemann www.energyskeptic.com Author of Life After Fossil Fuels: A Reality Check on Alternative Energy; When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation”, Barriers to Making Algal Biofuels, & “Crunch! Whole Grain Artisan Chips and Crackers”. Women in ecology Podcasts: WGBH, Jore, Planet: Critical, Crazy Town, Collapse Chronicles, Derrick Jensen, Practical Prepping, Kunstler 253 &278, Peak Prosperity, Index of best energyskeptic posts
Overview of Alternative & Renewable Energy Resources
- A. Friedemann. When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation
- A. Friedemann. Life After Fossil Fuels: A Reality Check on Alternative Energy
- D. Fridley. Alternative Energy Challenges. 2010.
- M. Hoffert. Advanced Technology Paths to Global Climate Stability: Energy for a Greenhouse Planet 1 Nov 2002 Science
- Greenhouse Planet. Science 1 Nov 2002
- T. Trainer. Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain a Consumer Society. 2010
- H. Hayden. The Solar Fraud: Why Solar Energy Won’t Run the World. 2005
Biofuels
- A. Friedemann. Peak soil: Industrial agriculture destroys ecosystems and civilizations. Biofuels make it worse
- A. Friedemann. Dozens of reasons why the world doesn’t run on algal biofuels
- A. Friedemann. Fill ‘er up with kelp?
- A. Friedemann. 60 minutes promotes biomass scam 2019
- Bioenergy — Chances and Limits. German National Academy of Science (Leopoldina Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften). 26 July 2012.
- D. Pimentel. Ethanol Production Using Corn, Switchgrass, and Wood; Biodiesel Production Using Soybean and Sunflower. 2005
Electric Grid: falling apart
- M Angwin. Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid
- J. Makansi. Lights Out. The Electricity Crisis. 2007
- R. Munson. From Edison to Enron: The Business of Power & What It Means for the Future of Electricity. 2005.
Batteries
- A. Friedemann. Who Killed the Electric Car and more importantly, the Electric Truck?
- A. Friedemann. The periodic table limits battery development
- A. Friedemann. Batteries are made of rare, declining, and imported minerals. 2013.
- Department of Energy. Vehicle Technologies Program. Energy Storage Research & Development. Annual Progress report 2008.
Solar
- P. Prieto. Spain’s Photovoltaic Revolution. The Energy Return on Investment. 2013.
- A. Friedemann. Solar Power Overview. 2011.
- Howard Hayden, The Solar Fraud: Why Solar Energy Won’t Run the World, 2005, Vales Lake
- A. Friedemann. CSP with thermal energy storage is seasonal, so it can not balance variable power or contribute much power for half the year
- F. M. Mulder. 2014. Implications of diurnal and seasonal variations in renewable energy generation for large scale energy storage
Wind
- A. Friedemann. 60 Reasons why wind power can not replace fossil fuels
- A. Friedemann. Wind’s dirty secret: it goes on vacation in the summer and year-round in the South East
Solar & Wind
- R. Vartabedian. Rise in renewable energy will require more use of fossil fuels. Los Angeles Times. 9 Dec 2012.
Nuclear
- W. Alley. Too Hot to Touch: The Problem of High-Level Nuclear Waste. 2013.
- A. Friedemann. Why Nuclear Power is not an alternative to fossil fuels. 2011.
- T. Cochran. It’s time to give up on breeder reactors. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 2010.
- H. Hirsch. Nuclear reactor hazards: ongoing dangers of operating nuclear technology. 2005.
- M. Dittmar. The Future of Nuclear Energy: Facts and Fiction (4 parts). 2009.
Hydropower
- A. Friedemann. Hydropower is temporary. Dams silt up, there are limited rivers, and they do harm. 2011.
- DOE. 2011. Dams and Energy Sectors Interdependency Study
- Hydropower has a very low energy density
Hydrogen
- A. Friedemann. The Hydrogen Economy: Energy and Economic Black Hole. Skeptic Magazine. 2008.
- J. Romm. Hype About Hydrogen: Fact & Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate. 2004
- U. Bossel. Energy and the Hydrogen Economy.
Fusion
- A. Friedemann. Fusion not likely to ever work out — be thankful for that. 2013.
- D. Clery. The Most Expensive Science Experiment Ever. Popular Science. June 27, 2013.
Geothermal
- A. Friedemann. Geothermal – can it make up for peak fossil fuels? 2013
Wind & Tidal
- A. Friedemann. Wave, Tide, Ocean Current, In-stream, Ocean Thermal (OTEC) power: National Academy of Sciences 2013
Muscle Power
- Steven Vogel, Prime Mover: A Natural History of Muscle, 2003, W. W. Norton
- Energy Slaves: every American has somewhere between 200 and 8,000 energy slaves
- From Horsepower to Horse Power. When Trucks stop, Horses start.
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