Getting Real on Wind and Solar

Publication date:
2009-05-03
First published in:
Washington Post
Authors:
J. Schlesinger, R.L. Hirsch
Abstract:

Why are we ignoring things we know? We know that the sun doesn't always shine and that the wind doesn't always blow. That means that solar cells and wind energy systems don't always provide electric power. Nevertheless, solar and wind energy seem to have captured the public's support as potentially being the primary or total answer to our electric power needs...

Published in: Washington Post, 24 April 2009
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