Author: craigshields

Here’s a video designed for newcomers, an introduction to the subject of energy storage, making the point that batteries are making progress via new technology.

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It’s easy to see how propaganda works.  Say you want to turn an entire population against Jews, so you publish every (real) crime that any Jew commits, insinuating that all Jews are criminals. 

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Question: What’s the principal mechanism by which mercury gets in your body? What does it do once it gets there? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: Most people place a higher value on their family’s than on any …

Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Coal and Mercury Read More »

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I just got off a conference call as part of my ongoing effort to bring together cheantech entrepreneurs with sources of investment capital. Here, we had a publicly-traded international investment firm that specializes in waste-to-energy (W2E) talking with a team …

California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard Read More »

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By any standard, Maine’s governor, Paul LePage, is a mean-spirited nutjob; the more you read about him the more clear this becomes. 

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Now this short video is funny.  And it made some level of sense until recently.  Now we have the Impossible Burger and the Beyond Burger, both which are entirely plant-based and virtually indistinguishable from cow meat. 

The video below presents a device to capture energy in ocean waves that consists of a tube under the water, open at both ends, and using the water that oscillates back and forth inside the tube to drive a turbine. 

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I hope readers will check out 2GreenEnergy super-supporter Gary Tulie’s insightful comments at the bottom of our intern Kevin Kuttumkal’s post Additional Electric Vehicles Can Reduce California’s “Duck Curve.”

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When a mechanical stress is applied to certain materials, electrons flow through it producing electricity; such materials are called piezoelectric. What is the practical applicability of this to generating useful amounts of power?  Essentially nil.  Keep in mind the law of …

The Relevance of Piezoelectricity Read More »

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For those living outside the United States, the “Founding Fathers,” i.e., the men who declared independence from England and wrote the seminal documents that form the underpinnings of our laws, are extremely well respected for their wisdom, not to mention …

Federal Appeals Court Slams Environmental Protection Agency Read More »

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