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The Energy Return of (Industrial) Solar - Passive Solar, PV, Wind and Hydro (#4 of 5)
Posted by Nate Hagens on April 29, 2008 - 10:00am
Topic: Alternative energy
Tags: hydroelectric, passive solar, photovoltaics, solar, wind [list all tags]
Below is 4th in a series of installments by Professor Charles Hall of the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and his students attempting to update the 'balloon graph' of EROI x Scale for fossil and renewable energy sources with help from theoildrum.com readership. Todays post deals with solar energy, specifically: Hydropower, Passive Solar, Photovoltaic, and Wind energy. Next will be Geothermal and Wave energy systems.
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