Renewable energy for all
Most policy buffs suggest that governments should not pick winners in the renewable energy or any other field. Now there is a scientific reason for narrowing the choice – any energy source other than the sun and derivatives such as [...]
The IEA’s solar energy perspective
World-wide the shipping rate of solar PV has increased by a compound rate of 65% in the five years to 2010: The graph above showing the shipping rate of solar came from the International Energy association (IEA) which has recently [...]
3.1% per year
As anybody who’s done the sums on it knows, solar PV is an extremely expensive way to reduce CO2 emissions right now, compared to energy efficiency, substitution of coal for gas, and other renewable technologies like wind power. Subsidies, such [...]
WorleyParsons goes green and black
That unsightly mess is an example of the landscape modification involved in tar sands mining in Alberta, Canada. We’ll come back to that. But grabbing the news recently was the announcement that Australian engineering firm WorleyParsons was looking at constructing [...]
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