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Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy and EV Modern Life

Setec Powerr

The issue is: How do these impacts compare to the positive impacts and, in the case of renewable energy projects, how do they compare to fossil fuel alternatives? A critical issue in decarbonization will also be the role of the electrical grid itself. Wind and solar farms are alternatives to fossil fuel-fired power plants.

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To Store or Not to Store: That is the Question

Green Car Congress

Typical daily grid demand. “ Why do you need energy storage on the grid, when the grid is full of power plants that generate all the energy that is needed? ” It would seem like a good question to ask and applies the same logic has been used for the past fifty years in determining grid strategy.

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What about the Pickens Plan?

Plugs and Cars

Diverse, American sources of energy have made the electric grid essentially resilient and secure, immune to petroleum’s price volatility or politics. Before greenhouse gasses became a global concern, before we came to terms with the inevitable limits of fossil fuels, natural gas would have been a logical fuel alternative to petroleum.

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