As the power utilities fight for their lives, given the defection of customers due to rooftop solar, they look to electric vehicles to replace all that load. Besides electricity generation itself, transportation is the biggest energy consumer in the U.S., …
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Power Utilities of Tomorrow: It’s Complicated
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Book Launch: “Is Renewable Really Doable?”
It’s time to launch my second book, Is Renewable Really Doable? on Amazon.com. The big day: March 15, 2012. I hope you will mark your calendar, and buy the book on that date. To help generate interest in the subject, …
Tagged with: Amazon.com, book launch, carbon taxes, Climate Change, conservation, consumer incentives, credit crunch, efficiency, end of cheap oil, energy storage, externalities, feed-in tariffs, food and water shortages, governments accelerate and retard clean energy, health hazards, Insights in LCOE – The Levelized Cost of Energy, Is Renewable Really Doable, land use, March 15 2012, Mike Hess, oil subsidies, scientific community unbiased, smart grid, the safety of fracking, transmission rights, venture capitalists clean energy
