History will likely look back at the energy sector of today with bewilderment. Yesterday’s fossil fuel addiction may be seen as a mistake of ignorance that powered our social and industrial development. They will likely look at tomorrow’s efficient and green era of energy abundance as the first step in the right direction. Today however, they will see that we have the knowledge and skills to shift to a cheap, clean and efficient energy system but, for one reason or another, we have not. Some people may respond to that with that same old rhetoric, “renewable energy is not dependable, it fluctuates too much, is not available at night, and it cannot provide the baseload energy supply.” In short, that is all now incorrect. Only solar power drops at night and we have energy storage to account for that. Wind, wave, geothermal and other forms of renewable energy are not dependant on sunlight. Tidal energy, […]