by Daniel Brouse One of the main problems with solar and wind energy is storage. They are great for making electricity when the sun is out or the wind is blowing, but how can you store energy for dark windless nights in the cold of winter of the heat of summer? Neither lead acid nor […]
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Green Energy Storage: The Sand Battery
Posted in Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Science
Also tagged alternative energy, climate change, solar, wind
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Hope Versus Climate Change
Global warming is a huge problem; however, we can make it much worse if we keep burning fossil carbon and killing ecosystems. The hopeful bit is that: Coal is dead. The US energy information administration confirms coal production is declining across the country. Greenpeace reports that globally “coal is in terminal decline.” Solar and battery […]
Posted in Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, health and wellness, Science
Also tagged climate change, coal, electric cars, fossil fuels, sea level rising, solar
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The Costs of Solar Energy
A lot of the environmental costs of solar depend on how the panels and batteries are produced, transported and disposed of… and most importantly how the energy is stored. As renewable energy grows, storage will become a greater problem. In general, we would be better off producing energy like the sun (fusion) than trying to […]
Posted in Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Science
Also tagged climate change, evaporation, fusion, global warming, Nuclear Energy, nuclear fusion, solar panels, storage, The Economics of Turning Water into Electricity, toxic waste, turn water into electricity, water
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