We’ve voiced our concern here before that solar power generating plants still have an environmental footprint.
But this nifty graphic, by David McCandless of Information is Beautiful, places that worry within an impressively positive context.
Posts Tagged ‘solar power’
- how much land would solar power generation take up?
Posted in energy, solar power, tagged solar power on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Housekeeping
Posted in climate change, environmentalism, solar power, tagged climate change, deserts, ecology, solar power on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After a long dry spell, we’re posting again.
Here’s something we meant to post earlier: It seems that the US government shares our worries about the environmental impact of solar power projects on desert environments. Not that we’re against them completely — just that it’s good to know what costs you are imposing on the planet, [...]
- $45,000 buys a new car and fuel for the rest of your life
Posted in economics, solar power, tagged electric cars, solar power on May 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
That’s what the Sierra Club is telling us. You need sun, still, since the fuel is electricity, derived from a photovoltaic system. And then there’s the regular maintenance on the car. But given that plenty of people spend over $45,000 on their cars alone, and if you really do keep your new car for a [...]
- more fuel for eco-feuds
Posted in solar power, wind power, tagged eco-feuds, solar power, wind power on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If tree owners and solar power generators have already spawned the age the eco-feud, just wait until suburban homes start sprouting domestic wind turbines on top of 60-120 towers.
The New York Times today surveys the incentives available for home wind turbines around the USA. While reporter John Casey says there are no reliable numbers to [...]
- and the environment versus itself
Posted in environmentalism, plants and animals, solar power, tagged Christian Science Monitor, policy, solar power, trees on April 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Actions that could help the environment don’t just regularly lose out to actions demanded by people with competing agendas. There’s plenty of potential for conflict within the environmental movement itself.
Take the case of the neighbors in Sunnyvale, California that pitted a family generating solar power in their backyard against the family living behind [...]
- Solar Power and the destruction of desert ecology
Posted in solar power, tagged deserts, ecology, solar power on March 8, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Solar thermal power plants are being built at an increasing rate across the dry American south and west.
As the New York Times reports today, in addition to two prototype plants that recently started operating, a further 10 are in the advanced planning stage in California, Arizona and Nevada.
“On sunny afternoons, those 10 plants would produce [...]
