Renewable Energy Is Key to Fighting Climate Change Renewable energy is one of the most effective tools we have in the fight against climate change, and there is every reason to believe it will succeed. A recent New York Times column seems to imply that renewable energy investments set back efforts to address climate change—nothing could be further from the truth. What’s more, renewable technologies can increasingly save customers money as they displace emissions from fossil fuels. Wind and solar energy have experienced remarkable growth and huge cost improvements over the past decade with no signs of slowing down. In fact, the investment firm Lazard estimates that the cost of generating electricity from wind and solar has declined by 58 percent and 78 percent, respectively, since 2009. In the longer term, the U.S. The benefits are huge In addition to the climate benefits that they will help deliver, renewables already provide a wide range of market and public health benefits that far outweigh their costs. Change is here
Alternative Energy - Wind, Solar, Hydro and other alt energy sources for commercial and home power What is Renewable Energy? — Renewable and Alternative Energy Renewable energy is energy generated from natural resources—such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides and geothermal heat—which are renewable (naturally replenished). Renewable energy technologies range from solar power, wind power, hydroelectricity/micro hydro, biomass and biofuels for transportation. Renewable energy is energy that is generated from natural processes that are continuously replenished. Alternative energy is a term used for an energy source that is an alternative to using fossil fuels. What is Biomass? Biomass, is a renewable organic matter, and can include biological material derived from living, or recently living organisms, such as wood, waste, and alcohol fuels. Wood energy is derived both from harvested wood as a fuel and from wood waste products. What is Biodiesel? Biodiesel is fuel made from plant oils that can be used in diesel engines.
The Reason Renewables Can't Power Modern Civilization Is Because They Were Never Meant To Der Spiegel Over the last decade, journalists have held up Germany’s renewables energy transition, the Energiewende, as an environmental model for the world. “Many poor countries, once intent on building coal-fired power plants to bring electricity to their people, are discussing whether they might leapfrog the fossil age and build clean grids from the outset,” thanks to the Energiewende, wrote a New York Times reporter in 2014. With Germany as inspiration, the United Nations and World Bank poured billions into renewables like wind, solar, and hydro in developing nations like Kenya. But then, last year, Germany was forced to acknowledge that it had to delay its phase-out of coal, and would not meet its 2020 greenhouse gas reduction commitments. After renewables investors and advocates, including Al Gore and Greenpeace, criticized Germany, journalists came to the country’s defense. But Germany didn’t just fall short of its climate targets. AG Energiebinlanzen The Question of Technology
Énergie éolienne : fonctionnement, avantages, chiffres clés et enjeux L'éolien en France En 2023, l’éolien a compté pour 10,3% de la production électrique en France métropolitaine selon RTE, consolidant ainsi sa place de 2e filière renouvelable productrice d'électricité après l’hydroélectricité. Avec une production annuelle record de 50,7 TWh, l'éolien est devenue par la même occasion la 3e filière productrice d'électricité toutes sources confondues, devant le gaz naturel. La France dispose d'un potentiel énorme grâce notamment à son littoral atlantique, faisant de l'Hexagone le deuxième gisement d'énergie éolienne en Europe, après le Royaume-Uni. Évolution de la puissance éolienne installée en France Historique de la production éolienne en France En Europe Dans l'Union européenne à 27, l'énergie éolienne a généré 466 TWh en 2023 (412 TWh à partir d'installations terrestres et 53 TWh à partir d'éoliennes offshore), soit l'équivalent de 19% de la demande d'électricité dans l'UE cette année-là selon l'association représentant la filière Wind Europe(3).
Alternative Energy Sources, Ethanol, Solar & Wind Power 151 Inspiring Environmental Quotes This post contains 151 environmental quotes from great conservationists, naturalists and environmental activists like Al Gore, John Muir, John James Audubon, Gaylord Nelson and many more. These quotes have been taken from various sources on the internet. If you have any of your favorite environmental quote that we missed and you would like it to be included here, please send it to us through our contact us page. Lets nurture the nature, so that we can have a better future. Environment A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.– John James Audubon Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer. – Denis Hayes Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.– Mahatma Gandhi The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
Non-Renewable Resources Never Really Run Out There’s a remarkable confusion in the modern debate over energy sources. Informed by geological rather than economic considerations, energy sources and some raw materials are thought of either as “Renewables” or “Non-Renewables” — and the former is somehow much preferred to the later. We’ve all heard versions of the following story: the use of non-renewable energy sources and digging up of non-renewable metals are what propelled the Industrial Revolution and underlined the build-up of our current rich societies and economies — but they are physically limited and finite, they will “run out,” and their use is “unsustainable” (the meaning of which is far from clear). In a trivial sense this is of course true: the anti-capitalist environmentalists are superficially correct about no Planet B and the impossibility of infinite growth of material consumption. But it’s also, as Tim Worstall explains, “supremely unimportant.” How Non-Renewable Resources Don’t Run Out …But Renewables Do
Hydroélectricité : définition, fonctionnement, chiffres clés, acteurs En France En France, de nombreuses centrales hydrauliques ont déjà été installées dans les sites les plus favorables (cours d’eau, massif montagneux, faible densité urbaine, etc.). Il y a environ 450 « grands » barrages en France selon la définition internationale de la Commission Internationale des Grands Barrages (barrages d’une hauteur supérieure à 15 mètres). Près de 220 de ces barrages sont utilisés pour produire de l’électricité, essentiellement dans les zones de montagne. Plus de 45% du parc national est situé en région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. La puissance totale des installations en France continentale avoisine 25,5 GW. Les autres barrages servent à l’alimentation en eau des villes, à l’irrigation (essentiellement dans le sud de la France), à la protection contre les crues, et pour les anciens barrages à l’alimentation en eau des canaux de navigation. Renouvellement des concessions hydroélectriques Puissance et production du parc hydroélectrique En Europe Dans le monde
Renewable Energy, forms and types of renewable energy There are many forms of renewable energy . Most of these renewable energies depend in one way or another on sunlight. Wind and hydroelectric power are the direct result of differential heating of the Earth's surface which leads to air moving about (wind) and precipitation forming as the air is lifted. Solar energy is the direct conversion of sunlight using panels or collectors. Biomass energy is stored sunlight contained in plants. Solar. Wind Power. Hydroelectric energy. Biomass is the term for energy from plants. Hydrogen and fuel cells. Geothermal power. Other forms of energy. If you think 100% renewable energy will never happen, think again. What are renewable energy sources? These tools and more can help make the transition from non-renewable to renewable and environmentally friendly energy.