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NRDC Map

This is an interesting little tool showing the potential energy of different parts of the US.

also more on this later but

“Several types of energy resources and specific technologies used to capture these resources claim to be renewable, despite either relying on dirty fossil fuel energy resources or creating other pollution hazards in the process. Following are three often-cited resources whose proponents claim are renewable but in fact they are not:

• Coal waste from coal mining
• Methane gas from coal mines
• Waste-to-Energy (WTE) facilities, i.e. waste incineration”

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