A skeptic looks at alternative energy
@article{Smil2012ASL, title={A skeptic looks at alternative energy}, author={V. Smil}, journal={IEEE Spectrum}, year={2012}, volume={49} }
In June 2004 the editor of an energy journal called to ask me to comment on a just-announced plan to build the world's largest photovoltaic electric generating plant. Where would it be, I asked-Arizona? Spain? North Africa? No, it was to be spread among three locations in rural Bavaria, southeast of Nuremberg. I said there must be some mistake. I grew up not far from that place, just across the border with the Czech Republic, and I will never forget those seemingly endless days of summer spent… CONTINUE READING
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