Renewables out of the bottle -- it is time for a little satori in renewable energy

[profgoose]

There is an old zen koan that says that a baby goose was placed inside a glass bottle and raised inside it. When it was fully grown it could no longer pass through the neck of the bottle. How can we get the goose out of the bottle without breaking it? It is the concept of "satori," "revelation". It is something that shakes you out of your old views and takes you to a new vision. It happens when you see something apparently impossible suddenly coming true, like the goose in the bottle suddenly appearing outside, free. Renewables have been growing as inside a bottle so far; a bottle made of disbelief, red tape and not enough financing. It is time for a little satori in renewable energy. Renewables can hold on their own with new and more efficient technologies, in particular the CdTe thin film version which may have an EROEI of 40.

Much more at http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/5573

[phantom power]

1. That is definitely the most interesting way I've yet seen to express the idea

that we aren't clapping hard enough.

[azul]

2. Fossil fuels have been the monopoly shutting out the competition.

And it would probably be somewhat ok if the resulting carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere were benign, and that the eventual price of oil would have to be paid in blood.

But we do need choices to power the population cleanly and peacefully, and like yesterday.

The hypnotic media selling gas and war is the glass jar.