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Monday, April 4, 2011

Renewables Are More Than Ready

By Karl Grossman  
opednews.com
April 4, 2011


  "Wind and solar are great but strictly supplemental," declared Al Velshi on CNN on Sunday, March 27 in a report on the nuclear power disaster in Japan.

  "You're wrong," environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a guest, shot back.

Indeed, Velshi was wrong--as have so many in media been -in declaring that the choice in energy in the wake of the nuclear disaster in Japan is between nuclear on one side and coal, oil and gas on the other.

In fact, there's no need for nuclear power because there are safe, clean, renewable energy technologies, not coal, oil and gas, here to substitute for nuclear power.

Scientific American, a most conservative scientific publication, in a cover story on October 26, 2009--unveiled its "A Plan for a Sustainable Future" It declared in its "Plan to Power 100 Percent of the Planet with Renewables" that, "wind, water and solar technologies can provide 100 percent of the world's energy, eliminating all fossil fuels."

            The British magazine, New Scientist, in a special October 11-17, 2009 issue on safe, clean, renewable energy technologies--titled "Our Brighter Future"--presented a United Nations report declaring that "renewable energy that can already be harnessed economically would supply the world's electricity needs"

            From solar to wind (now the fastest-growing and cheapest new energy technology) to wave-power to tidal-power to bio-fuels to small hydropower to co-generation (combining the generation of heat and electricity) and on and on, a renewable energy windfall is at hand.


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