Greta vs Wind Farms; The Twilight of Trudeau; & What's With the Empty Planes?
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This week Richard Fernandez contributed an article on one of the practical problems with renewable energy. 'Saving' the Planet, Only to Despoil It Shifting the world's energy supply from petrochemicals to solar power involves solving two major challenges. The first is finding enough land to capture enough power from diffuse sources. The second is expanding the world's electrical grid capacity to at least double its present size to energize societies from which the internal combustion engine has been at least temporarily banned. "Saving the world: won't restore Gaia to its pristine state, rather it will disfigure the planet in different ways.
Greta vs Wind Farms; The Twilight of Trudeau; & What's With the Empty Planes?
Greta vs Wind Farms; The Twilight of Trudeau…
Greta vs Wind Farms; The Twilight of Trudeau; & What's With the Empty Planes?
This week Richard Fernandez contributed an article on one of the practical problems with renewable energy. 'Saving' the Planet, Only to Despoil It Shifting the world's energy supply from petrochemicals to solar power involves solving two major challenges. The first is finding enough land to capture enough power from diffuse sources. The second is expanding the world's electrical grid capacity to at least double its present size to energize societies from which the internal combustion engine has been at least temporarily banned. "Saving the world: won't restore Gaia to its pristine state, rather it will disfigure the planet in different ways.