IEA: Global renewable energy growing fast

[Capt Worley PE]

NEW YORK (AP) — Renewable energy is growing fast around the world and will edge out natural gas as the second biggest source of electricity, after coal, by 2016, according to a five-year outlook published Wednesday by the International Energy Agency.

Developing countries are building more wind, solar and hydro-electric power plants to meet rising power demand and combat local pollution problems. And the costs of renewables are falling below the cost of traditional power sources such as coal, natural gas and oil in some markets with high-priced power.

Renewable power, including hydropower, is the fastest-growing power generation sector and it is expected to increase by 40 percent in the next five years. By 2018 it will make up a quarter of the world's energy mix, according to the report, up from 20 percent in 2011.

Eighty percent of the renewable power generated in the world, however, is hydropower, a technology frowned upon by environmental groups and sustainability experts because it requires the construction of dams that can damage river ecosystems.

More: http://news.yahoo.com/iea-global-renewable-energy-growing-fast-141933357.html

 

[Master slacker]

Eighty percent of the renewable power generated in the world, however, is hydropower, a technology frowned upon by environmental groups and sustainability experts because it requires the construction of dams that can damage river ecosystems.

More: http://news.yahoo.com/iea-global-renewable-energy-growing-fast-141933357.html

So now renewable energy is being attacked by those who push for renewable energy. :huh:

 

[Supe]

There are a lot of one-liners in that article that I call BS on.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

Hydroelectric power has never really been in high-favor with the environmental groups for the damage it causes to river ecosystems.

 

[mudpuppy]

There are also environmental groups that don't like wind power either.

 

[Master slacker]

Beggers can't be choosers.

 

[Ble_PE]

There are also environmental groups that don't like wind power either.

As well as large scale solar projects. There are solar plants that are under protest right now due to disrupting such large areas of the desert and changing the ecosystem.

 

[mudpuppy]

What was the term Wolverine coined? NBAANA? Never Build Anything Anywhere Near Anything?

 

[Capt Worley PE]

BANANA Buld absolutely nothing anywhere near anything.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

NIMBY - Not in my back yard

 

[mudpuppy]

Yeah, BANANA. . .it's NIMBY taken to the next level.

 

[wilheldp_PE]

In order for Unicorn farts to be a viable energy source, they would have to be kept in tighly-packed kennels near the harvesting machines which I'm sure wouldn't jibe with the environmentalists either.