(Cross posted at Charles Barton's Nuclear Green Revolution with Chagall's Golgaltha)
One of the pleasures of the new Department of Energy under Steven Chu and the DOE of past years is clarity.
Until recently, if one wanted to find out from the Department of Energy website what portion of so called "renewable" energy actually came from solar PV, wind, biofuels, blah, blah, blah, one couldn't do it. With the exception of dangerous and deadly hydropower, the figures of so called "renewables" were all lumped together.
(One may contrast this with the "Drill, Baby, Drill!" nation of Denmark which lists in excrutiating detail the output of every single one of the wind turbines that that august nation uses to put lipstick on its offshore oil and gas pig.)
Now though, the new transparent energy department breaks out solar from wind from biofuels - with the exception that solar is still lumped with "tidal," not that either actually matter. We may now determine what 50 years of "solar will save us" talk has produced besides complacency and self delusion.
continued at Daily Kos....
