I attended a terrific event on raising capital for cleantech ventures the other night, and had the good fortune to become acquainted with Tiffany Paige of “GreenWithTiffany.” What a fabulous human being. I love her rant on Styrofoam: “nothing we …
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Siemens Installing Enormous Quantities of Off-shore Wind
Siemens, the German industrial giant, just completed the installation of a platform in the North Sea that will link two large offshore wind farms and transmit the power (ultimately 6.2 gigawatts) to the mainland, powering 500,000 homes with wind energy. …
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Cute Little Wind Turbine on North Carolina's Outer Banks
My mother and I spent a wonderful day together on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, our destination for the wedding of my eldest nephew, and the eldest of Mom’s five grandchildren. Our task for the day was to find …
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Sometimes Environmentalists Get In Their Own Way
Here’s one of a few articles I’ve come across recently that reminds me of an important, if unsettling fact: in many cases, environmentalists are their own worst enemies. The most obvious cases of this may be here in California, one of …
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Wind Energy and Compressed Air Energy Storage
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzOyhqJA7AQ]Here’s a summary of a business plan in which an entrepreneur hopes to implement compressed air energy storage (CAES) in conjunction with a set of wind farms. CAES shows some promise as an energy storage solution, though considerable work …
Wind Farms with Compressed Air Energy Storage
I’ve added a hot new business plan to the list I’m now featuring. I spoke yesterday with Joe Speace, CEO of “Project Renewable Energy” near Kansas City, whose doing a capital raise for a wind farm that will feature compressed …
[The Vector] Global Offshore Wind Sector Expanding Rapidly
The global offshore wind turbine market is expected to almost double this year after record growth last year, according to a report published in October by Danish consulting company MAKE. MAKE predicts the expansion will continue into 2015. …
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Audubon — Spreading Its Wings
In marketing, the idea of “positioning” is rooted in the notion that we have space in our minds for precious few ideas, and we tend to associate the people, the products, and the companies in our lives with single concepts. …
