title: Renewable Energy: Sustainable Energy Concepts for the Future
author: Roland Wengenmayr
description: "This creative book dispenses with formal chapters, but the 20 major categories clearly document innovative and sustainable energy concepts using existing technologies based in Europe. The descriptions are clear, and the combination of pictures and diagrams are relevant and convincing." (<i>CHOICE</i>, January 2009)
zlib_text: MuseLetter 290 / July 2016
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  MuseLetter #290 / July 2016 by Richard Heinberg 
  This month's Museletter continues with the theme of Our Renewable Future. We
  begin with an article on the important distinction between a clean electricity
  future and a clean energy future. Next is a chapter from the Our Renewable
  Future book, which I co-authored with David Fridley, offering ideas for action.
  Lessons Along the Path to 100 Percent Clean Energy
  In early May of this year, Portugal ran on renewable electricity alone for four
  consecutive days. And later that same month, on May 15, Germany filled almost
  all its electricity needs with solar, wind, and hydro power.
  This is good news: it tells us we’re making progress toward a zero-carbon
  energy system. But it also helps us see the challenges to a full renewable energy
  transition.
  Many press reports said Portugal and Germany were getting all their energy
  from renewables during these short periods of abundant wind and sunlight. But
  