On the website: Environmentalists for Nuclear - USA, EFN-USA, we present articles, PowerPoint Presentations, whole books and videos on nuclear energy, nuclear medicine, nuclear science and many other sources of energy and their by-products to see how nuclear fits in. There are over 700 authors, with widely varying viewpoints. By presenting different viewpoints, people should be able to make better decisions. Here are articles and PowerPoint Presentations on the EFN-USA website about wind and solar energy.: Advocating for wind and solar: Mark Jacobson, Critical of wind and solar, advocating for fossil fuels and nuclear: Ted Rockwell (Who's Who in Science from antiquity to the present). Energy Facts Report. See wind starting on page 33, solar starting on page 35, biofuels starting on page 39. John Droz Jon Boone Matt Ridley Everything on EFN-USA exclusively about wind and solar. There are places where wind and solar have more favorable conditions. Solar - Arizona , Mediterranean coast of Africa, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Israel Wind - Texas, Kansas, Denmark, Patagonia in Argentina Energy density is a critical factor. If wind and solar have an energy density of ONE, fossil fuels have an energy density of more than ONE THOUSAND, and nuclear has an energy density of more than TEN MILLION. Those ratios of energy coming from a unit volume indicate the amount of physical plant that has to be built, maintained and dismantled at end of life. For energy density of wind and solar, which normally list energy per unit area, we refer to the volume of the physical plant needed for wind farms. Wind and solar facilities have a life expectancy of 20 to 30 years. Fossil fuel and nuclear plants have a life expectancy of 60 plus years. The volume of waste material from dismantled wind and solar facilities is much more than volume of dismantled fossil fuel or nuclear facilities.
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