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 …
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Hedge Connection Publication "The Edge" Features Doty WindFuels
Here’s my monthly post for the Hedge Connection, an online link between investors—now called “allocators”—with hedge fund managers. I contribute articles to their publication called “The Edge,” which is read by a large and growing number of high-level people whose job …
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"Hydro Nano Gas"
A reader asks: What’s your take on Hydro Nano Gas? I think this could be a game changer if it really works. This strikes me as a fraud. The issue is one of chemistry. The reaction CH4 + O2 -> …
New Compressed Air Energy Storage Plant Coming to California
It appears that planet Earth is on its way to its third implementation of CAES (compressed air energy storage) – one of a handful of different technologies that warehouses off-peak energy production and makes it available for times of greater …
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Talking Up Synthetic Fuels at the Energy Efficiency Summit
My participation in last week’s Energy Efficiency Summit also enabled me to talk about Doty Windfuels, under the heading of synthetic fuels more generally. One of the presenters cheerfully reported that one of the graduate students he’s mentoring had outlined …
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The Best Approach to Synthetic Fuels: Doty WindFuels
A reader asked if I would comment on this piece on using the carbon in CO2 to produce fuels. Yes, I’ve seen this, and yes, it works, if we want methanol, which generally we don’t. I believe that the best …
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More Discussion on Energy Storage
In today’s discussion on energy storage, senior energy analyst Glenn Doty writes: As far as who should pay for storage, that’s easy… the storage facility should pay for itself by the value that it adds to the grid. If it …
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SAT Question Stimulates Thoughts on Oil Dependence
When I signed my daughter up to take the SATs, the organization that administers the test asked if I wanted to receive, via email, the “SAT Question of the Day.” I eagerly agreed. I love little quizzes, and I look …
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ARPA-E and Stimulus Money for Cleantech
Here’s a good article in The Atlantic on the ARPA-E, the mechanism the federal government uses for dispensing stimulus money for clean (and not-so-clean) energy projects. It’s based on an interview of veteran Time Magazine writer Michael Grunwald, whose book …
Notes on Electric Transportation
I just got off the phone with a friend of a friend, who heads up the electric vehicle strategy at one of the largest utilities in the U.S. Here are some of the ideas we covered: • Especially in the …
