Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain A Consumer Society

• Book: Trainer, F. E. (T.), 2007, Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain A Consumer Society, Springer, Dordrecht.

Summary

Ted Trainer:

"No technical-fix assumption is more common nor more unexamined than that renewable energy sources can be substituted for fossil fuels, thereby enabling abundant energy affluence while eliminating the greenhouse and other problems. A case to the contrary is detailed in Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain A Consumer Society (Trainer 2007, and updated in Trainer, 2008. See also Trainer, 2009 and 2010.)" (http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue57/Trainer57.pdf)

More Information

• Ted Trainer: Radical Implications of a Zero Growth Economy
• Trainer, T., (2008), “Renewable energy – Cannot sustain an energy-intensive society”, http://ssis.arts.unsw.edu.au/tsw/RE.html
• Trainer, T., (2010), “Can renewables etc. solve the greenhouse problem? The negative case”, Energy Policy, 38, 8, August, 4107 - 4114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2010.03.037