Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

“Nine Challenges of Alternative Energy” released

Biofuels Digest
August 16, 2010 Jim Lane

In California, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab scientist David Fridley released “Nine Challenges of Alternative Energy” as a chapter in the October 2010 Watershed Media/UC Press publication, The Post Carbon Reader.

The report looks at Scalability and Timing, Commercialization, Substitutability, Material Requirements, Intermittency, Energy Density, Water, The Law of Receding Horizons, and Energy Returned on Energy Invested.

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