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Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown David Steinman See book keywords and concepts

They offset office and bakery energy use with clean, renewable wind energy by purchasing green tags through Native Energy. They purchase only 100 percent postconsumer recycled paper for the office and use only unbleached, recycled paper and nontoxic inks for printing. All of their promotional T-shirts and tote bags are made of 100 percent certified organic cotton. Clif Bars shows how a relatively small company can make a big difference.13 www.clifbar.

Shell is also looking to grow its wind energy production capacity from its current 350 to 500 megawatts by 2007, including the first Dutch offshore project (in which Shell is a 50 percent partner), and an offshore project in the United Kingdom with the potential to produce 1,000 megawatts (Shell's share is one-third). Shell is a leader in solar energy as well. In 2004, in partnership with GEOSOL, Shell opened the world's largest solar park in Leipzig, Germany.^ The solar power station will produce energy for about 1,800 households, and save some 3,700 tons of C02 emissions annually.

Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power Mark Schapiro See book keywords and concepts

Among those sources is wind energy, which has seen a one-hundred-fold increase in capacity since 1990. Most of the wind technology used in China, according to Yingling Liu, director of the China Watch project—an alliance between the Washington-based Worldwatch and the Beijing-based Global Environmental Institute —comes from Danish, Spanish, and Dutch companies.29 Those three countries subsidized early development of the technology in the late eighties and nineties, and are now reaping the profits from those public investments. In his book, Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

The building is completely self-sufficient, generating 100 percent of its own power on-site through solar and wind energy. The Zero Energy House emphasizes passive techniques for generating energy and maintaining indoor comfort. "Passive" solar energy makes use of existing conditions and natural methods like conduction and radiation to heat a building. ("Active" solar energy, by contrast, requires pumps and motors to circulate heat and power collected by solar panels and shingles.

The American wind energy Association goes even further, claiming, "North Dakota alone is theoretically capable (if there were enough transmission capacity) of producing enough wind-generated power to meet more than one-third of U.S. electricity demand." The potential worldwide may be even more impressive. The U.S.

Department of Energy has concluded that the world's wind could generate more than fifteen times as much energy as the world is currently using, while a 2002 Danish study sponsored by the European wind energy Association, "Wind Force 12," found that with even comparatively modest technological advances and policy support, wind could supply 12 percent of the world's electricity by 2020.

Many test projects have demonstrated the concept's effectiveness, but a financially viable system has yet to be produced, jc & jjf HHH resource Wind Power: Renewable Energy for Home, Farm, and Business by Paul Gipe (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2004) wind energy has been growing at double-digit rates for many years, and—as a proven and cost-effective renewable technology —is likely to do so for many more. In Wind Power, Paul Gipe provides a realistic assessment of issues involved in building and running a wind-energy installation, including primers on both engineering and practical issues.

Despite wind energy's success, there remains a need for a frank discourse on how to wisely use the technology." G. r-i J_L_ (~ ' _J wn0 lont nave a grin nearny or cant an or a þ IDC] THE ? to be connected, the advancement of off-grid technologies has been a revelation, creating the opportunity to leapfrog [see Leapfrogging, p.

According to Schaeffer, "In wind energy, size, especially rotor diameter, matters. Nothing tells you more about a wind turbine's potential than its diameter—the shorthand for the area swept by the rotor. The wind turbine with the bigger rotor will intercept more of the wind stream and almost invariably will generate more electricity than a turbine with a smaller rotor, regardless of their generator ratings." FindSolar http://www.findsolar.

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century James Howard Kunstler See book keywords and concepts

You can't manufacture metal wind turbines using wind energy technology. You can't make lead-acid storage batteries for solar electric systems using any known solar energy systems. The pseudo-fuel hydrogen will be considered in its own special category, as the popular hopes about it are based on higher orders of unreality. The so-called "hydrogen economy" centered around hydrogen-powered cars, as promised by President Bush in his 2003 State of the Union message, is at this point a fantasy, and an especially dangerous one insofar as it promotes complacency about the predicament we face.

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