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Tag Archives: wind

Clean energy isn’t expensive anymore

Posted on May 30, 2014 by Chris Riley

For a long time one of the main criticisms of clean energy is that it’s expensive. And that’s been true, but not anymore. Due to economies of scale, wind power is now cheaper than fossil fuels. The source of this information is a power company in Europe, which profits from fossil fuels and renewable energy, so they don’t have an axe to grind.

Posted in Technology | Tagged clean energy, power, wind

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