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Transport planners have misread our energy future

Bernard Abrams - Cheltenham, GL50
17 June 2011
 

Tipping points seem to be out of fashion but talk of peaks continues: peak oil, peak car and now peak renewables from Michael Lind, policy director of the economic growth program at the New America Foundation.

To quote Lind: “The arguments for converting the economy to wind, solar and biomass energy have collapsed. The date of depletion of fossil fuels has been pushed back into the future by centuries or millennia. We may be living in the era of peak renewables, which will be followed by...

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