Talk:Renewable energy

Human power energy

Strange, that in an article like this, electricity, generated by human power isn't mentioned at all. Nevertheless it might be one of the oldest forms of renewable energy. Since how long already lights of bikes are made working by the biker himself, as he pedals, while the dynamo is droven by the turning of one of the two wheels? Maybe (not quite) hundred years?

By now more and more products, that used to function on batteries, are also available in a version, provided with a crank, so that the owner can load it with his own personal human renewable energy.

And then there's the fact, that a certain nature protecting foundation for years already is trying to get a decisive answer on it's repeatedly posed question, how many pedaling persons it would take, to together make a small energy plant function. (Just imagine, hardly any jobless any more, because as good as anyone can pedal for some four hours a day, which is less, than cyclists use to do, when they are active. Of course this gives some associations with historical galley slaves, but by now professional cyclists, although sometimes called "Slaves of the road" in general have little to complaint about. In other words, it could be made quite luxurous in there. Natubico (talk) 20:30, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

I had the same idea about human power replacing power plants. However, even trained cyclists don't usually reach more than 250 watts, so after four hours you would (at most) get a single kWh of energy per day. However, human power for direct use (as in bikes) deserves a mention in this article IMO. --Roentgenium111 (talk) 18:23, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Idea

Add sustainable development infobar to bottom of page. Type this:

This is a very large and complex template, which would come after a long "See also" section. I just don't see the need for it. Johnfos (talk) 08:34, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

This template was deleted and portalized last year. It has been recommended for deletion at wp:tfd Apteva (talk) 07:38, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Proposed merger with Renewable Fuels

Discuss at: Talk:Renewable fuels#Merge proposals

Link Fix

I am not familiar with the Wikipedia and I am sorry if I ask here off-topic, but can someone, please, add a link to Slovak version of this page? It should be like this: sk:Obnoviteľné zdroje energie or the full address is: http://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obnoviteľné_zdroje_energie Thank you, Juraj Kubica (147.175.112.15 (talk) 08:17, 1 October 2008 (UTC)).

Done. you can just edit the article and put [[sk:Obnoviteľné zdroje energie]] at the bottom. works similar as on this talkpage. Cheers. Mion (talk) 08:49, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Free energy

The use of this phrase to refer to renewable energy appears to be a wp:neologism. It is an idea Reddi has tried many times to push forward, but has yet to provide any sources for his claim. It may be used in passing, but in all the examples I see it is a juxtaposition of concepts rather than an actual phrase. Please provide a source which claims it is used colloquially to refer to renewable energy (anymore than an oil man might use "bullshit" colloquially to refer to renewables). NJGW (talk) 19:15, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

I agree that "Free Energy" has been used contemporaneously to refer to over-unity claims, which renewable energy is not one of. --Skyemoor (talk) 19:46, 10 October 2008 (UTC)