{"id":1546,"date":"2005-08-17T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-17T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/08\/17\/plugging-renewables-in-the-carribean\/"},"modified":"2005-08-17T16:23:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-17T16:23:00","slug":"plugging-renewables-in-the-carribean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/plugging-renewables-in-the-carribean\/","title":{"rendered":"Plugging Renewables in the Carribean"},"content":{"rendered":"
While the US certainly needs to discuss the consequences of reliance on foriegn sources of oil and gas, just imagine how much more important such a discussion would be for the island nations of the Carribean that (to my knowledge) have little to no sources of their own of fossil fuels. An op-ed<\/a> by writer Clarence Pilgrim on Carribean Net News addresses the role of Carribean nations as importers of fossil fuels, and also extolls the benefits that these countries might accrue through a large-scale shift to renewable power production. Pilgrim notes the intermittant nature of many\/most renewable sources, but it seems to me that the Carribean might be a close to ideal as it gets for solar and wind power generation. When also considering the economic and educational potential of such a move, it certainly seems like a no-brainer. Anyone have more concrete information on how renewable energy development might play out in the Carribean?<\/p>\n Technorati tags: renewable energy<\/a>, energy independence<\/a>, economics<\/a>, Carribean<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While the US certainly needs to discuss the consequences of reliance on foriegn sources of oil and gas, just imagine how much more important such a discussion would be for [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n