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Why is Hydroelectricity So Green, and Yet Unfashionable?

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There is no end of gushing about China’s cheap solar panels—but when was the last time you saw a paean to hydroelectricity? The manufacture of solar panels involves the environmental costs from mining, waste disposal, and carbon emissions. You would think this is about as “green” as it can get, but in 2022 that would be a mistake.

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Smart Grids, Electric Vehicles: A Financial Win-Win for All -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Millions will plug-in their electric vehicles [EV], plug-in hybrids [PHEV] and fuel cell vehicles [FCV] at night when electricity is cheap, then plug-in during the day when energy is expensive and sell those extra electrons at a profit. Hybrid electric buses and heavy trucks could power many homes or a school or a hospital in an emergency.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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This article discusses: (a) why the focus should have been on the transfer of proven renewable energy technology from developed to developing countries; and (b) how this technology transfer can be financed with currently available funds. Do we really want to be remembered as the generation that wasted another decade? Form of Transfer.