That's where my new favorite website comes in. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory, part of the US Department of Energy, offers a wealth of data about America's capacity for all kinds of nonfossil, nonnuclear energy solutions, including solar, wind, . (A big hat-tip to the Sietch Blog for directing me there.) Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
The author reads the EIA site without understanding anything. Gore's proposal is just stupid unless you subscribe to the global warming religion. He wants to replace reliable coal with unreliable wind for generating electricity. Wind is very expensive and unreliable. Wind and solar are at best marginal supplements that require subsidies. Geothermal is pie in the sky except for a few special places. Biomass - I think we've had enough of ethanol another version of biomass. Nuclear is practical and does not emit CO2 but the global warming religionists rarely mention it. Do we need to ask why?
