WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
WHAT POWERS OUR WORLD
THE MOST IMPORTANT THING
30 YEARS TO A SOLUTION
RECIPE FOR THE FUTURE
ALL BENEFITS HAVE COSTS
PUT THE RABBIT BACK IN THE HAT
HOW DIRTY A WORD?
LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE
PAY NOW, REAP LATER
BUT NOT INDEPENDENCE
THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT?
THE INSIDE LOOK
100 YEARS AND GETTING THERE
CHEAP AND DIRTY
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE BATTERY
TAMING THE FIREBALL
WAS THE IDEAL RESOURCE
THE LONG WINDING ROAD
ABUNDANT AND CLEANER
HIGH POWER, HARD TO HANDLE
THE ECONOMIC GAS PEDAL
$UPER CLEAN
TO A BIGGER, SMARTER GRID
AFFORDABLE IF NOT UNAFFORDABLE
Affordable if not unaffordable
To get a substantial portion of our electricity from wind means building hundreds of thousands of turbines. They're affordable, so we could do that. But we usually don’t live in the windiest areas, so we’ll also need to build transmission lines – which is harder than building the wind farm itself. If the wind stops blowing when we need the power, we’ve got to replace it quickly with some other generation. Hopefully, challenges of siting, transmission and backup generation won’t make this clean, affordable resource, unaffordable.
Your 2-minute take on wind, with Dr. Scott Tinker
Cliff Etheredge Wind Farmer
Explaining how to arrange turbines in a wind farm
Full Interview
Dr. Steve Koonin US Undersecretary of Energy
Explaining the basics, and the potential, of windpower
Full Interview
Cliff Etheredge Wind Farmer
On what farmers earn by leasing land to wind developers
Full Interview
Dr. Lynn Orr and Dr. Sally Benson Stanford University Energy Program Directors
Outlining some challenges for wind
Full Interview
Jesse Ausubel Program for the Human Environment, Rockefeller University
On why wind and other renewables are not green
Full Interview
Scott Anderson Senior Policy Advisor, Environmental Defense Fund
On the pros and cons of wind
Full Interview
Barry Smitherman Chairman, Public Utility Commission of Texas
Describing how to balance the intermittency of wind power
Full Interview
Cliff Etheredge Wind Farmer
On getting wind power onto the transmission lines
Full Interview
Cliff Etheredge Wind Farmer
On how to build the world’s biggest wind farm
Full Interview
Dr. Ernie Moniz Director, MIT Energy Initiative
On siting and transmission for wind
Full Interview
Cliff Etheredge Wind Farmer
Describing the community benefits of wind
Full Interview
Dr. Richard Muller Physicist, Berkeley National Lab and Professor, UC Berkeley
Discussing wind and solar
Full Interview
Scott Anderson Senior Policy Advisor, Environmental Defense Fund
Explaining the environmental challenges of wind
Full Interview
Scott Anderson Senior Policy Advisor, Environmental Defense Fund
Describing how new transmission is essential for wind projects
Full Interview
Barry Smitherman Chairman, Public Utility Commission of Texas
On building transmission for wind electricity
Full InterviewSwitch Energy Project
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