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Solar panels and wind turbines can provide off-grid power in isolated rural areas.
In August, the Trump administration banned US companies from selling gas turbines and electronic equipment to Russia, owing to those products’ potential military applications.
Thanks to the drop in the cost of solar panels and wind turbines, both are expanding at a faster pace than ever expected.
For example, cutting a ton of CO2 with on-shore wind turbines in Germany probably costs about $35, avoiding about 14 cents of climate damage per dollar.
But offshore wind turbines cost about $150 per ton of CO2, avoiding just three cents of climate damage per dollar.
The city’s plan is to build more than 100 wind turbines within the greater Copenhagen area and in the shallow waters around it.
With a combined output of 360 megawatts, which will feed electricity into the grid, these turbines will more than cover Copenhagen’s electricity needs – and the surplus can be used to offset the city’s remaining CO2 emissions, including from the city’s millions of non-electric cars.
Even if fossil-fuel-powered electricity prices remain constant, Copenhagen’s wind turbines become a net drain.
In other words, renewable energy can’t be relied upon to provide power 24 hours a day, seven days a week: wind doesn’t always spin the turbines on the hill, the sun cannot shine on solar power stations at night, and even hydroelectricity can run short if the rains don’t come.
When most people think of renewable energy sources, they imagine solar panels and wind turbines.
What Africa needs, according to many activists, is to be dotted with solar panels and wind turbines.
The same goes for wind turbines, which are fashioned from copious amounts of cobalt, copper, and rare-earth oxides.
Denmark is a pioneer in commercial wind power and produces half of the world’s wind turbines.
But it is mainly private companies that are now producing wind turbines and solar panels, and it is private investors, submitting competitive bids in power auctions, who are financing renewable power and earning good returns, despite ever-falling prices.
As a result, the use of wind turbines has increased ten-fold over the past decade, with wind power often touted as the most cost-effective green opportunity.
As the UK and other developed countries have rushed to build more wind turbines, they have naturally started with the windiest places, leaving poorer sites for later.
Most people believe that a few wind turbines can be attractive, but it is an entirely different matter when turbines are scattered across the countryside, or when massive, industrial wind farms extend for miles.
Complaints have also increased about enormous new wind turbines’ low-frequency noise.
Given souring public sentiment, most of the future increase in wind turbines is expected to take place offshore, where there is less opposition, but where costs are much higher.
The UK Carbon Trust estimates that the cost of expanding wind turbines to 40 gigawatts, in order to provide 31% of electricity by 2020, could run as high as £75 billion ($120 billion).
According to The Wall Street Journal, the US Department of Energy (DOE) alone is planning to spend more than $40 billion in loans and grants to encourage private firms to develop green technologies, such as electric cars, new batteries, wind turbines, and solar panels.
Deploying more wind turbines and solar panels creates a need for more builders, technicians, tradespeople, and specialist employees.
Of course, if you assume that vast swaths of the countryside will be covered in wind turbines and solar panels, you will inevitably predict that a large number of construction jobs will be required.
We cannot solve the problems created by concrete and turbines with more concrete and turbines.
Blowing It On the WindBERLIN – When considering climate change, most people think wind turbines and solar panels are a big part of the solution.
Likewise, the turbines in many hydro power plants in Latin America are coming to the end of their useful life.
By retrofitting them with new turbines (as we are doing in Haiti and Venezuela), countries can continue to use this source of renewable electricity for an additional 20 to 30 years.
Insulationmaterials (which reduce buildings’ heating and cooling needs), wind turbines,and solar-power modules would not exist without contributions from the chemicalindustry.
Of course, climate campaigners might point out that the solar panels and wind turbines will give electricity – albeit intermittently – to about 22 million people.
Off-grid RETs represent a viable solution, and come in various forms: solar home systems, mini-hydroelectric generators, rooftop wind turbines, and village-level mini-grids using a mix of diesel generators and local renewable sources, to name a few.
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