A Big Future for Small Wind?

by John Rubino on February 1, 2010

The alt-energy conventional wisdom has always been that solar panels, because they’re just as efficient on a single rooftop as in a utility-scale desert array, are the future of distributed power generation. Wind turbines, because they get more efficient as they grow, are most useful as 300-meter high monsters in offshore wind farms rather than [...]

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Solar Crosscurrents

January 26, 2010

These are complex times for solar power. After a couple of heady years in which capital poured in, stock prices soared and pretty much everyone got to build new factories, a capacity glut and the Great Recession have combined to knock the bottom out of industry earnings. And now the European countries that had used [...]

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Power Shift

January 22, 2010

Mother Earth News just published a long excerpt from environmental writer Amanda Little’s Power Trip. Here’s an excerpt of the excerpt. The rest can be seen here.

War Without Guns
My venture into America’s energy future began with a trip to a flat, dry and mostly barren town in the gusty prairies of west Texas that [...]

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