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Is 100 Percent Renewable Energy Possible?
« on: May 25, 2018, 09:13:36 am »
May 25, 2018
Is 100 Percent Renewable Energy Possible?
By Norman Rogers

The people who are best described as members of a renewable energy cult are lately promoting the idea that we should run the country on 100% renewable energy, whatever that is.  I say "whatever that is" because different branches of the cult have different definitions of renewable energy.  It seems to be a matter of fashion and prejudice.

Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/05/is_100_percent_renewable_energy_possible.html#ixzz5GWEQad6Z
 

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Re: Is 100 Percent Renewable Energy Possible?
« Reply #1 on: May 25, 2018, 09:19:21 am »
Technically possible and economically feasible can be drastically different answers.
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Re: Is 100 Percent Renewable Energy Possible?
« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2018, 10:44:35 am »
Well written piece.

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Re: Is 100 Percent Renewable Energy Possible?
« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2018, 12:13:22 pm »
Technically possible and economically feasible can be drastically different answers.
Definition of the contrasts between a scientist and an engineer.
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Re: Is 100 Percent Renewable Energy Possible?
« Reply #4 on: May 25, 2018, 12:15:01 pm »
Definition of the contrasts between a scientist and an engineer.

Yep, I rarely get paid just to produce a paper.

I have the get the thing built and running.  Always takes dollars and somebody else sets the limits.
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Re: Is 100 Percent Renewable Energy Possible?
« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2018, 09:39:28 am »
Yep, I rarely get paid just to produce a paper.

I have the get the thing built and running.  Always takes dollars and somebody else sets the limits.
Yep, and I never chased all the uneconomic leads the geologists pointed out to me either.
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