Tag: clean energy investment opportunities

Here’s a video on synthetic fuels.  This is an important topic for people to understand, but this particular presentation contains so many misleading claims, that it does more to confuse and misinform the viewer than to elucidate the subject.

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I thought I’d publish this email I wrote to a colleague whose team I’m trying to connect with one of my clean energy investment opportunities, as I’d like people to know that I do whatever I can to weed out …

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As noted here, energy from biomass (non-fossil organic matter) is a much bigger deal in Europe than it is in America. That’s largely because of the mandate to get rid of coal, on top of which, the industry got a heavy-duty …

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2GreenEnergy has had a long-running interest in helping a company called Doty WindFuels enter the synthetic fuel market; in fact, they’re on our “clean energy investment opportunities” page.  The company, based in Columbia, SC, has a proprietary multi-step approach that …

Synthetic Fuels in the News Read More »

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One of the greatest misconceptions lies in the idea that true capitalism can’t be eco-friendly, seeing as how it relies so heavily on exploitation. However, in the present state of the global market, nothing could be further from the truth. …

From Guest Blogger Diana Smith: Five Green Investment Suggestions for Aspiring Entrepreneurs Read More »

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As we’ve often discussed here, the migration to renewable energy on the grid, and the simultaneous replacement of petroleum with electric transportation are really two sides of the same coin. That’s largely because the environmental benefits of EVs are realized …

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Most of the clean energy “investment opportunities” I turn down are marred by huge technology risk,  requirement for additional development capital,  lack of “skin in the game” on the part of developers, an exec team clearly comprised of yahoos, or …

Energy Investment Non-Starters Read More »

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I had a meeting in New York City last year with a fellow alumnus of Trinity College (pictured).  The guy had just sold his real estate development company for a mere $5.4 billion (with a “b”), so I thought that …

Some Investors May Be Skeptical of Solar—But Not For Long Read More »

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2GreenEnergy Supporter Cameron Atwood sent me this piece on OTEC, and writes: Interesting. Yes, that IS interesting. There definitely will be unintended consequences (assuming that OTEC ever comes along). Some of these, however, will be good, or at least have …

Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Is Bound To Have Unintended Consequences Read More »

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Here’s a little exchange with a gentleman by the name of Ken from Zambia, who’s been following my work on clean energy investment opportunities.  Out of modesty, I normally wouldn’t publish something like this, but I couldn’t resist in this …

From a Kind-Hearted Reader in Zambia Read More »

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