• DOI:10.1109/MSPEC.2012.6221082
Corpus ID: 9842335

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}
}

V. Smil

Published 2012

Engineering

IEEE Spectrum

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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