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Author: craigshields
The Validity of Energy Efficiency
A reader notes: “Efficiency” is bogus. Amory Lovins has been pushing “negawatts” for 40 years or so, and energy consumption has only gone UP. Jevons’ paradox (that asserts that the increasing efficiencies with which a resource is used cause additional …
Here’s Why Small Wind Is a Failure
The course of technological progress isn’t always represented by a positive slope, and in the case of renewable energy there are most definitely a few examples of retrograde motion. The poster child for all this is small wind, meaning devices …
Need Some Good News?
I just received an email that is so perfectly crafted I thought I’d publish it here in its entirety. The subject: Citizens United, the notorious U. S. Supreme Court decision of 2010 that enables corporations to spend as much as …
Untangling the Contradictions that Surround Our Energy Future
Here’s my first and long overdue post on the energy think tank Post Carbon Institute, whose work I think readers will admire. In brief, it’s a group intent on providing an objective analysis on energy resources on this planet, and pointing …
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The Solutions Project
My long-time colleague Lindsay Oliver writes, Hi Craig; Have you seen this (The Solutions Project) yet? This is more than interesting: Yes, Mark Z. Jacobson (professor at Stanford) is a legend to us renewable energy people.
Our Burgeoning Interest in Flying Cars
When I read my colleague Jon LeSage’s piece on the development of flying cars in his Green Auto Digest this morning, I had the same reaction that anybody would: How feasible is this? How far in the future does this …
A Bit About Our Internships at 2GreenEnergy, and a Warm Welcome to Daniel Oyagha
Daniel Oyagha, our newest 2GreenEnergy intern, just finished a Master’s of Science program in a university in Nigeria, and we’re thrilled to have him on board. Here’s a note I wrote to him in preface to our work together; I thought …
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Green Energy Soon To Become Cheaper Than the Traditional Stuff, Investors Raking In Cash
I know there are those out there who doubt that renewable energy is ready for prime time and that investors in this space are headed for disaster. Don’t tell that to the investors of Danish utility DONG Energy, who are …
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Fossil Fuel Companies Duking It Out with 7.3 Billion People with Lungs
Caption: Only one side can win.
