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The Geography of Energy Production: A Changing Landscape
By Adam Blair
May 17, 2012
It is widely accepted that increased renewable energy generation will result in lower greenhouse gas emissions to the extent that dirtier fossil fuel technologies are replaced by sources like wind and solar. What I would argue is much less familiar to most people, however, is how the geography of energy production will change in countries making a transition to more renewables. The reason for this shift can be explained in large part by physics: sources of renewable energy (e.g., sunlight or biomass) are, generally speaking, lower in energy density than most conventional, petroleum-based sources. Energy density is a term used to describe the amount of energy stored per unit of volume. In other words, the higher the density of an energy source, the more of it can be stored or transported in the same amount of space. This concept, while overly technical for some, becomes extremely important when planning for new energy development at the local and regional level.
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