Comments on: 7-Point Action Plan for Repowering U.S.

By: Clean Tech Nation (Book Review)

Clean Tech Nation (Book Review) — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 12:30:35 +0000

[…] the last chapter, authors provide a seven-point plan to “Repower America” (yep, we’ve posted that), which includes a national renewable electricity standard of 30% by […]

By: sk8sonh2o

sk8sonh2o — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 02:53:00 +0000

I’m suspicious of the boost natural gas gets here, without carbon pricing in the 7-point plan, and no mention of fracking & leakage. Fail!

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 23:21:00 +0000

You’re a very major pillar short Ron.

You forgot about storage.

Natural gas is nothing but a place-holder for storage. We can’t build a long term grid with natural gas playing a major role. That’s a lead sparrow, you might get it up in the air for a while, but it won’t soar.

I’d suggest you get started on a new edition in which you present an actually clean and sustainable grid and re-title this version “A Partially Clean Tech Nation – Better Ideas Missing”.

By: SecularAnimist

SecularAnimist — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:36:00 +0000

Sorry, you lost me with “responsible” natural gas.

By: Ross

Ross — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:52:00 +0000

Variable renewables not intermittent. The latter term is not approved of on this site.