Tag: off-peak wind

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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I write a great deal about practical matters: the installed cost/Watt of PV, the list of heavy metals we find in coal, what we may want to do with off-peak wind, and so forth.  These are measurable things, and, as …

Discussions of Sustainability Are Empty Without the Concept of “Connecting” Read More »

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According to this article, Tesla’s announcement of its new Model D—and simultaneous statement that we’ll have to wait three more years for the affordable Model X, or whatever it will be called in 2017/18—was “received fairly well by automobile analysts.”  …

Telsa’s Model “D” Stands for “Disappointment” Read More »

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In response to my recent piece on electric transportation in Seeking Alpha, EV naysayer Glenn Doty writes a response that concludes: “I just don’t get how any environmentalist could support these.  If the people who buy solar panels and a …

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It’s good to see the public and private sectors working together.  Here’s a story announcing the U.S. Department of Energy’s five-year, $120-million award for a team of 14 companies, universities and national laboratories.  The project will be led by Argonne …

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Glenn Doty is an extremely senior scientist who studies the macro-world of energy, and doesn’t like what he sees regarding electric transportation. He writes: While I have tremendous respect for you and the work that you are doing, I have …

Electric Vehicles: Confronting the Tough Realities Read More »

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