In a recent debate over the future of nuclear power, Amory Lovins cites some interesting statistics about micropower generation:"Risk-taking capitalists are concluding that nuclear power is not an attractive option compared with other technologies" including distributed power from co-generation (combined heat and power generation), next-generation biofuels, solar, wind, tidal, and geothermal energy.
Lovins said that micropower (i.e. distributed energy generation) now accounts for one-sixth of world power, surpassing nuclear as a source of electricity for the first time in 2006. He noted that in 2005 micropower added four times as much output and eleven times as much capacity as nuclear added.
Photography by Ben Stechschulte
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Vol. 27 No. 02 | February 2006
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