W. S. Jevons (1865) on Windpower (Memo to Obama, Part I)
The most important book ever written on energy economics was published in 1865 by William Stanley Jevons, The Coal Question (London: Macmillan and Company). This classic is out of print but available...
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Wind: Energy Past, not Energy Future (the intermittency curse then, as now)
The disadvantage of windpower as a primary energy source has been long recognized. This 1838 textbook described the competitive situation of wind as follows: William Stanley Jevons also detailed the...
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Windpower Is Not an Infant Industry!
“The use of wind power is as old as history.” - Erich Zimmermann, World Resources and Industries (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1951), p. 62. “The Federal Power Commission became interested in the...
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Industrial Wind Power: An Old, Tried Failure (the intermittency curse then...
Best of MasterResource: 2009 This post orginally appeared (with comments) on March 4th The disadvantage of windpower as a primary energy source has been long recognized. This 1838 textbook described...
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Excerpt from Erich Zimmermann, World Resources and Industries: A Functional Appraisal of the Availability of Agricultural and Industrial Resources (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1933), pp. 556–58....
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Wind Energy is Ancient (the infant industry argument for subsidies does not...
“The use of wind power is as old as history.” - Erich Zimmermann, World Resources and Industries (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1951), p. 62. The day after the election, the New York Times cutely...
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Early Wind Technology
[Editor Note: Wind energy is not a new technology as previous posts at MasterResource have discussed (listing at end below). This excerpt is from a longer article, "Changing Winds: The Evolving Wind...
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