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
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.
Switch Energy Project
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