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Renewable Energy Works in Germany, and Elsewhere?

Benji Jerew — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 21:35:13 +0000

We’ve done a lot of coverage on renewable energy adoption in various places, but it seems that there is a lot of counter-coverage, to which Energiewende says “enough is enough.” Energiewende, German for “energy transition,” isn’t anything new, but actually got its start back in the 1970s. The oil crisis got people thinking about where […]

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Renewable Energy Limitations Need a Technological Boost

Benji Jerew — Mon, 19 May 2014 16:38:05 +0000

How the world would benefit if we could simply switch over to 100% renewable energy, but perhaps it’s not that easy. Well, we’ve always known that renewable energy wasn’t the easy choice, once you throw in economics, efficiency, and political costs. The problem is that renewable energy, while all around us, is in such diffuse […]

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Defective Solar Panels “Made in China”

Benji Jerew — Wed, 29 May 2013 17:01:12 +0000

For many, the words “Made in China” don’t bode well. Solar panels with this marking could soon become as scorned as many other cheap Chinese products. Masters of copycat products in just about every market, Chinese manufacturing giants are now flooding the market with solar panels, and more of these are proving to be defective […]

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