Renewable energy

Chapter 1. Will renewable energy sources help resolve global problems?

Renewable energies will halt climate change / Greenpeace

Renewable energies will not halt climate change / Jason Harrow

Relying on renewable energies would damage the earth / Mark Buchanan

Renewable energies will stabilize energy prices / Jorge Madrid, Bracken Hendricks and Kate Gordon

Renewable energies will increase energy prices / David W. Kreutzer ... [et al.]

Renewable energy sources have enormous land footprints / Bob Marshall

Land footprints of renewable energy sources are exaggerated / Amory B. Lovins

Chapter 2. What must be done to transition from nonrenewable to renewable energy?

Large scale renewable energy projects are necessary / Tim Dickinson

Small scale renewable energy projects will democratize energy / John Farrell

Renewable energy sources can satisfy energy demands / World Wildlife Fund, Ecofys, and Office for Metropolitan Architecture

Renewable energy sources cannot satisfy energy demands / Ted Trainer

Renewable energy sources work best if supplemented with nuclear power / Charles Forsberg

Renewable energy sources work best if supplemented with natural gas / Richard Ward

Chapter 3. What renewable energy sources are viable parts of the world's energy future?

The biofuel future / Rachel Ehrenberg

Biofuels are not a viable renewable energy / Danny Chivers

Ethanol provides a sustainable alternative to gasoline

American Coalition for Ethanol

Ethanol does not provide a sustainable alternative to gasoline / James Eaves and Stephen Eaves

Electric vehicles are worthwhile alternatives to fossil-fuel vehicles

James Kliesch / Electric vehicles are not worthwhile alternatives to fossil-fuel vehicles / Robert Bryce

Chapter 4. What should be government's role in promoting renewable energies?

US government support for renewable energies will benefit the country / Richard W. Caperton ... [et al.]

US government support for renewable energies will not benefit the country / Jonathan A. Lesser

Renewable energies need government subsidies to succeed / Stephen Kurczy

Eliminating all energy subsidies will benefit renewable energies / Jeffrey Leonard.