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Ted Trainer, "Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain a Consumer Society"

It is widely assumed that our consumer society can move from using fossil fuels to using renewable energy sources while maintaining the high levels of energy use to which we have become accustomed. This book details the reasons why this almost unquestioned assumption is seriously mistaken.

Chapters on wind, photovoltaic and solar thermal sources argue that these are not able to meet present electricity demands, let alone future demands. Even more impossible will be meeting the demand for liquid fuel. The planet’s capacity to produce biomass is far below what would be required. Chapter 6 explains why it is not likely that there will ever be a hydrogen economy, in view of the difficulties in generating sufficient hydrogen and especially considering the losses and inefficiencies in distributing it. Chapter 9 explains why nuclear energy is not the answer.

The discussion is then extended beyond energy to deal with the ways in which our consumer society is grossly unsustainable and unjust. Its fundamental twin commitments to affluent living standards and economic growth have inevitably generated a range of alarming and accelerating global problems. These can only be solved by a transition to The Simpler Way, a society based more on simpler, self-sufficient and cooperative ways, within a zero-growth economy. The role renewable energy might play in enabling such a society is outlined.

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Contents

Acknowledgement vii

1. The Context 1

2. Wind Energy 11

3. Solar Thermal Electricity 43

4. Photovoltaic Solar Electricity 59

5. Liquid and Gaseous Fuels Derived from Biomass 73

6. The “Hydrogen Economy” 93

7. Storing Electricity 101

8. Conclusions on the Potential and the Limits 107

9. Why Nuclear Energy is Not the Answer 119

10. The Wider Context: Our Sustainability and Justice Predicament 125

11. The Simpler Way 135

Notes 159

References 183

Terms 193

Units 195

Index 197

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