Links tagged with “energy”
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James Meek · Who holds the welding rod? Our Turbine Futures · LRB 15 July 2021
Long article on making wind turbine towers and the international labour market (which maybe makes it sound duller than it is).
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gyford.com/ – Website Carbon Calculator
Over a year my site uses “57kWh. Enough electricity to drive an electric car 368km.” Very, very roughly, I imagine. (via Adactio)
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What can a technologist do about climate change? A personal view.
From November 2015. I don’t feel any less useless but it’s a great way to present a piece of writing. If only every news article had such clear extra context.
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Dodgy wind? Why “innovative” turbines are often anything but
A good read about why many supposedly new-and-improved designs for wind turbines aren’t improved, and sometimes aren’t even new. (via @undermanager)
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James Meek · How We Happened to Sell Off Our Electricity · LRB 13 September 2012
Plenty of people linked to this at the time, but I forgot. Now I am. A good read on who now owns the UK’s power.
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Global Offshore Wind Farms Database
Ugly, and lacking a key, but a detailed map of offshore windfarms.
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Google Trends: “peak oil”
Peak Peak Oil.
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Kardashev scale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“The scale has three designated categories called Type I, II, and III. These are based on the amount of usable energy a civilization has at its disposal, and the degree of space colonization.” (via The Speculist)
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Dailymotion - The Daily Show: An Energy-Independent Future - a News & Politics video
Just in case you were even slightly optimistic after Obama promised US energy independence. They’ve been saying that for at least 36 years. Thirty. Six. Years.
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Suddenly, Those Solar Panels Don’t Look So 1970’s - New York Times
I was thinking/hoping that solar energy companies must have bright futures. (via Annie)