An engineer at GM in Detroit, Mr. Shashwat Sitesh, contacted me recently, asking if he could volunteer to perform some research and reporting on clean energy issues. Needless to say, the answer to requests like this is always yes. Welcome to …
Tag: smart cities
Nuclear Energy and Renewables Need To Cooperate. Isn’t That Obvious?
As noted yesterday, some of these pro-nuke people have a very dim view of renewables; some of the more extreme among them accuse the entire renewable energy enterprise of being a corrupt/criminal attempt to suck down government subsidies, while knowing …
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Tagged with: 100% renewables at a reasonable price, AGW anthropogenic global warming, DR, efficiency solutions, electric transportation, energy storage, flavors of renewables, geothermal resources Iceland, load shifting, Nuclear and renewables’ fighting against one another makes no more sense than having the US Army attack the Marine Corps, peak shaving, smart cities, wind resources
Solar, Wind, and the Future of Human Civilization
Frequent commenter MarcoPolo writes: The solar and wind industries are both heavily dependent of government and consumer subsidies. When those subsidies are modified or withdrawn the industries suffer massive constrictions. Solar and wind employment is a little like a gold …
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Tagged with: advanced nuclear, carbon emissions problem, corn ethanol, development of solar and wind, efficiency solutions, electric transportation, energy storage, high voltage transmission, oil companies have been receiving subsidies for 90 years, runaway climate change, smart cities, solar and wind industries, subsidies for solar and wind
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Smart Cities
Question: What percentage of gasoline consumed in inner-city regions is used by motorists looking for parking spaces? How can “smart cities” technology help? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: This is yet another example of how smart cities are …
The Future of Transportation: Using Less of It
It seems that one could add the suffix “genic” to any noun form, to create an adjective meaning that a certain thing is made or caused by a particular source. Take the work “obesogenic,” for instance; it’s hardly in mainstream …
Bullish on Renewable Energy?
The theme of my new book project (working title is “Bullish on Renewable Energy – Eleven Reasons Why Clean Energy Investors Can’t Lose”) is that the economic factors that are making clean energy cheap are heading forward at a rate …
Smart Cities
Here’s a free webinar on smart cities from research firm Frost and Sullivan that I think I’ll attend. They see the subject growing in importance to a $3.3 trillion industry by 2025. Needless to say, that’s a huge amount of …
Tagged with: Frost and Sullivan, Jesse Berst, Livability, smart cities, sustainability, webinar on smart cities, workability
