power generation

A book review and commentary of The Citizen Powered Energy Handbook by Greg Pahl.

Looking backwards while moving forwards is the way I like to think of the home power station.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory found that nighttime charging of plug-in hybrids would not increase electricity demand over baseline levels. But if owners charge their vehicles during the day, it could require the construction of 160 new power plants.

PERHAPS IT'S TIME TO INSIST THAT PEOPLE LIVING IN CITIES AND SUBURBS ACCEPT THE CONSTRUCTION OF GENERATING PLANTS IN THEIR IMMEDIATE AREA.

There are certain well-used contemporary clichés which are more than lazy verbal shortcuts. They represent clichés of the mind and the heart. Substitutes for thought, they are weapons used by the spin-merchants of commerce and politics. They simplify complexity and smother debate.