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Category Archives: Renewable Energy
Why It Is Hard to Convince the US Public of Climate Change
The primary reason that acceptance of climate change has been opposed in America, is that climate change is mainly caused by CO2 from fossil fuel burning, and is strongly opposed by those industries, which are the richest in America. They … Continue reading
Comments on the Movie “Switch” and discussion at UC Irvine
I have just returned from a showing of the movie Switch about forms of energy generation, and searching for our energy future, sponsored by the Newkirk Center. Presenting was the film’s director, Harry Lynch. We are planning to show this to … Continue reading
China’s Coal, Renewable and Nuclear Power: Present and Future
China has large, public plans for an ideal world of power in China. They are moving toward most of these. Since power is partly a national project, they may well succeed in some of them. Clearly they have the motivation … Continue reading
US and World Solar Power for 2012
World Solar Power World Wide Photovoltaics The total world wide photovoltaic peak power at the end of 2012 is 102 gigaWatts at peak overhead illumination, where a gigaWatt (GW) is a billion Watts or 1,000 megaWatts. Germany has a … Continue reading
US, China, and World Wind Power
This article presents data on US, China, and World wind power as of the end of 2012. The sources are the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) at http://www.gwec.net/ , the American Wind Energy Association, andWikipedia. From GWEC we have the … Continue reading
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Election Savings and California Education
Yea! All the teachers that I know and the students cheering at a talk I went to applaud the state of California for passing proposition 30, which add funds and avoids cuts and tuition hikes to our schools at all … Continue reading
SC Edison’s and California’s 2011 Greenhouse Gas Content
I was amazed to find in my September 2012 SCE bill their Power Content Label for 2011, a report on their energy sources required by California law. When I tried to look up more information on the California website, all … Continue reading
Evaluate Before Acting on California Reactor Risk
From what I have read in the local papers, there is much concern locally about earthquakes, tsunamis and other problems at the SONGS nuclear reactors in San Onofre, California. There have been city council meetings in Laguna Beach and Irvine … Continue reading
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New Events in Energy
Introduction Predicting the future of energy sounded easy, in that major facilities such as power plants can last up to 60 to 70 years, and sources can also last decades, as well as pipelines and tankers. However, new sources … Continue reading
China, Water and Energy
The UCI Forum talk yesterday about China by Chancellor’s Professor of History Ken Pomeranz was about drought in the north, and the projects to divert water from the south to the north to continue farming. It was also about plans … Continue reading