At the recent Solar Power International show. I ran into a spokesperson for NREL, and engaged in a discussion of the most exciting development happening out there in Golden, Colorado. As it turns out, it’s perovskites, especially calcium titanium oxide, CaTiO3. …
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Hey Little Girl, Cathodic Protection
Those who grew up with the rock/pop of the 1960s will recognize that the title here is a take-off on the song: “(Hey Little Girl) Psychotic Reaction.” Now that we have that bad pun out of the way, let me …
Yes, the Glaciers Are Melting, But That’s Not a Big Deal, Is It?
I urge you to check out this article called Arctic Tipping Points Can Ripple Around the World and especially its comments. You’ll note that the discussion offers some of the most intense knee-jerk reactions you’ll ever see on the subject …
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Solar Power International
By the time this post is published early tomorrow morning, 2GreenEnergy’s young intern Fabio Porcu and I will be on our way to the Solar Power International show in Anaheim (near Los Angeles) California. SPI is the largest solar conference …
Australia’s New Prime Minister Will Take a Rational Stance on Climate Change
Here’s good news for all you people with lungs. Australia has ousted Tony Abbott (pictured), its extreme right-wing prime minister, and replaced him with Malcolm Turnbull, a gentleman known to be much more in tune with a variety of social …
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From 2GreenEnergy Intern Fabio Porcu: A Big Dam for Big Storage
Storage systems play an increasingly important role for renewable energy development in our modern society. Their primary function is to store energy produced from variable energy sources, i.e., those which, by their nature, are discontinuous since they are linked to …
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Electrifying Our Freeways
Here’s an article on Utah State University’s project to build a track on which to test the concept of the inductive charging of a moving electric vehicle. My question: Why? No one’s doubting that it can be done, but at …
Tomorrow’s Electrical Energy Paradigm: Microgrids
It’s hard to imagine the content of the conversations that are going on in the boardrooms of the power utilities. Perhaps it’s not too different from those happening at the oil companies: The very conditions by which we exist are …
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Celebrating the Commonality of Humankind
Today is the 75th anniversary of the discovery of the caves in Lascaux, France, whose art, drawn by our short, hairy ancestors, dates back approximately 17,000 years. According to popular art historian Sister Wendy, this is the proof that these primitive …
Decency Happens
I wrote a post yesterday to the effect that we live in a world in which the oil companies are systematically destroying the environment, all the while using their enormous wealth to prevent the citizenry from passing laws that would …
