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Archive for September, 2010

The 2000 Watt Society

Cur­rently each Ger­man uses 6000 Watts of energy around the clock. Researcher pro­vide tar­gets to reduce energy con­sump­tion to 2000 Watts around the clock. But this objec­tive can­not be accom­plished eas­ily and is not nec­es­sary, if and when we switch away from fos­sil fuels to renew­able energy sources.

Energy And Power

If you use power of 1000 W (10 pieces of 100 W light bulbs turned) for an hour, you just used energy of 1kWh (kilo Watt hours).

When Disaster Hits Home

The San Bruno explo­sion and fire hit home way too close, and trig­gered thoughts about risks we are appar­ently will­ing to take to just avoid change. Will we wait to switch away from fos­sil fuels until it is too late?

Electric Car’s Achilles’ Heel

Bat­ter­ies for elec­tric cars do have a poor energy den­sity com­pared to gaso­line used for con­ven­tional cars. How­ever, tech­no­log­i­cal advance­ments and avail­abil­ity of dis­trib­uted charg­ing sta­tions might be enough to make this dis­ad­van­tage man­age­able for elec­tric cars.

Squandered Opportunities — How Not To Manage Public Land For Renewable Energy

No renew­able energy is gen­er­ated when the Fed­eral Bureau of Land Man­age­ment “man­ages” sites to gen­er­ate renew­able energy on pub­lic land. And Gold­man Sax seems to be in the non-generating busi­ness — why?