Correction: Jacobson cites a 30% gain in efficiency not 50% in his 2011 paper (link). The point holds. Heard et…
I find it hard to believe that someone with knowledge of the history of Energiewende would advocate for using Germany…
Imagine that... someone knee deep in the German renewable transition thinks its better than nuclear... all the while Germany burns…
" RWE coal business collapsing, eco-daughter Innogy helping out " (in German) http://www.manager-magazin.de/finanzen/artikel/rwe-kohle-geschaeft-im-ersten-quartal-q1-halbiert-tochter-innogy-hilft-a-1147708.html The hedging prices are collapsing: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-4506372/RWE-details-forward-power-hedges-German-plants.html Imagine…
Don't leave out Australia. It has fierce political, economic, and intellectual conflicts over energy and at the moment the renewables…
[…] of rotating masses in conventional power plants. The grid needs reactions by the millisecond. Batteries do that best, such…
[…] Transparency in democracy: as numerous authors from various countries have found, the nuclear sector has always come at the…
[…] onlar olacak enerji kaynakları. Olağanüstü günlerde bile Almanya, tükettiği elektriğin % 41’ini Mart ayının tamamı boyunca yenilenebilir kaynaklardan sağlayabiliyor.Böyle…
Correction: best-case assumptions for nuclear, not for wind and solar, which are based on direct observation.
Good. The shrinking band of nuclear fans should consider the consequences of this ruling for South Africa's carbon emissions. Electricity…