Can Renewable Energy Be Sustained?

ScienceDaily ^ | Nov. 23, 2008

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ScienceDaily (Nov. 23, 2008) — Engineers and entrepreneurs are rushing to explore alternative sources of efficient and renewable energy in New Jersey and elsewhere in the country. A Rutgers School of Business—Camden professor has strong words of caution as projects involving wind farms and photovoltaic cells proliferate.

With the electric-power industry poised for its most dramatic changes in decades, too little thought is being devoted to coordinating these piecemeal initiatives, warns Richard Michelfelder in a recent edition of The Electricity Journal, the leading policy journal for the electric industry.

The consequence, he fears, might well be a disastrous overload of the nation’s electrical grid.

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Abstract: http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1040619008001395

[Balding_Eagle]

Can Renewable Energy Be Sustained?

Yes. That's the only rational answer.

Otherwise it wouldn't be called renewable.

[Post Toasties]

What a content-free article - some blather about forcing utility companies to take “responsibility for promoting and exploring energy efficiency” and not much else.

[SierraWasp]

Baloney! Only if it’s petroleum, hydro or nuclear based!! Why do you want to keep kidding yourself???

[Balding_Eagle]

Not kidding anyone, especially not myself. We live in a world awash in oil, and are fools to use anything else right now.

I was commenting on the word renewable.

[Islander7]

I'm shopping around for a new car.



Eco friendly is the way to go!

[savedbygrace]

“I first became aware of the issue in 1973, as a 16-year-old pumping gas. When I started, the price was 29 cents a gallon. By the end of the year, it was $1.45. The price of a barrel of oil started out that summer at $3 and ended up at $12,” he recalls.

The prices cannot be right. AFAIK, gasoline did not go to $1.45/gal in 1973. More like fifty some cents a gallon.

[SierraWasp]

I comprehend that but I grow so weary of those who defend delusional dreams of sustaining these “alternative” energy sources on any kind of an economic basis that even the American people can afford at this time. It’s just ridiculous to the nth degree!!!

[Balding_Eagle]

I agree completely.

[SkyDancer]

No thanks, I have other plans.....

[dalereed]

“Eco friendly is the way to go!”

My opinion of that is the same as sail boats FAP (F**k Atmospheric Pressure)

[dalereed]

Eliminat all subsidies and take the excessive taxes off oil and we won’t ever have to hear about your crappy alternative energy sources ever again.

[Gondring]

Didn’t read the story, eh?

[Islander7]

LOL! I like yours better. Is that a Yugo?

[Balding_Eagle]

Didn’t read the story, eh?

No, sure didn't. Just was making a sarcastic comment on the headline.

Should have used Sarcasm/off. This'll teach me!

[SkyDancer]

Hard to tell - I think it is though ....