“Not all
renewables are created equal” - By Tom Butler. A post at grist.org, the
author does an excellent job of questioning if we are developing the renewable
energy industry correctly. Since I live next to one of the largest wind
projects in Iowa, I could really identify with this one. Mr. Butler was discussing the reaction to the book
he coedited - ENERGY:Overdevelopment
and the Delusion of Endless Growth
A quote from the grist article - "I’ve found that some green power advocates want to keep it superficial (fossil fuels = bad, renewables = good) rather than digging into tougher questions about appropriate scale and centralized, corporate control of energy resources, including renewables. I am not unsympathetic to the arguments of well-meaning activists who say we can’t let the perfect be the enemy of the “less unsustainable,”
A quote from the grist article - "I’ve found that some green power advocates want to keep it superficial (fossil fuels = bad, renewables = good) rather than digging into tougher questions about appropriate scale and centralized, corporate control of energy resources, including renewables. I am not unsympathetic to the arguments of well-meaning activists who say we can’t let the perfect be the enemy of the “less unsustainable,”
And that kind of ties in with -
The Sierra club posted this article provocatively titled “Warren
Buffett's Coal Problem -To run his coal trains, the billionaire investor
needs to seize land from a bunch of Montana cowboys. That's not going over very
well.”
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