Category:Energy: Difference between revisions

Evolution of Humanity's Energy System - 1800-2020

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'Green' Hydrogen: A Clean Energy Solution?

• https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/jun/12/billions-of-dollars-are-being-invested-in-pricey-g/

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• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Energy_-_Electric_Measuring_and_Monitoring.png

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World has installed 1TW of solar capacity

• https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/03/15/humans-have-installed-1-terawatt-of-solar-capacity/

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Thinking Energy Conversion

Think of moving away from fossil fuels and their full costs

Think of a Terawatt and then think.... Petawatt

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(power)

• https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/terawatt

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_full-cost_accounting

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Alternative Energy: 21st Century Shift from Fossil Past to Renewable Future

Renewable Energy

Geothermal -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_energy

Hydropower -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydropower

Solar energy -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_energy

Tidal power -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_power

Wave power -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_power

Wind power -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power

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Sustainable/Renewable/Alternative: Clean Energy

Renewable alternatives to fossil fuels and nuclear energy sources:

Sustainable energy -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_energy

Renewable energy -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_commercialization

Alternative fuel vehicles -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_fuel_vehicle

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In development: energy research and development:

Fuel cell - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_cell

Hydrogen vehicles ("energy carrier" not "energy source") -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_vehicle

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Energy from Space -- http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Space_Solar_Energy

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Our World in Data / Energy Chart (2019)

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EnergyDesk / Greenpeace

http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/region/asia/

http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/region/china/

http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/region/europe/

http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/region/germany/

http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/region/india/

http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/region/united-kingdom/

http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/region/united-states-of-america/

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Energy Data: Monitor and Manage

Interactive Map: How the US Generates Electricity

The goal -- a clean energy economy

Clean energy investment broke new records in 2015 and in 2016 is seeing twice as much global funding as fossil fuels...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-06/wind-and-solar-are-crushing-fossil-fuels

Transitioning to Renewables: Our Generation's Challenge

Era of Nuclear Power Coming to an End

A Clean Energy Revolution

Clean Energy Now

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Renewable Energy Investment Growth

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