Robert Benedict, a fellow I met at last year’s Intersolar show in San Francisco writes: Amazingly solar (photovoltaics) have already passed its golden anniversary (50 years) by the 11th year now or 61 years total. The birth of photovoltaics took place in …
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“Beating the Oil Companies Is the World’s Biggest Problem”
A reader notes: I live in New Zealand where 75% of our electricity is from hydro, geothermal, and wind. We could easily replace every bit of coal with more geothermal and be 100% renewable with political will. Shell in NZ …
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Quick Discussion on Hydrokinetics
A fellow wrote to me just now to say that, as a high school student, he had become aware of the force of siphoned water, and came to understand that by “using two ponds, (he) could turn a water turbine …
Phasing Out Fossil Fuels—By When?
The other day I wrote a post suggesting that the timeframe associated with the G7’s decision to phase out fossil fuels by the year 2100, 85 years from now, was “an eternity.” Now, I’m a guy who enjoys good writing …
U.S. National Security and Climate Change
It’s no secret that the U.S. military has climate change on its radar screen, insofar as the prospect of 200 million climate refugees has grave implications for things like homeland security, not to mention the potential to stabilize regions outside …
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Lots of Joy and Kindness at the Live Oak Music Festival
Needless to say, there is a huge demographic match-up between devotees of renewable energy and lovers of eclectic music (folk, blue grass, blues, reggae, etc.), plenty of which was on tap at this year’s Live Oak Festival from which I …
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From Guest Blogger Jordan: Tesla Buys an Auto Parts Supplier Based in Michigan
Just a few days after unveiling the Powerwall home battery system, which promises to ensure independence from the power grid for homes and businesses, and possibly cause some radical changes in the energy market, Tesla Motors has announced that it …
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From Kevin Fullerton: Sustainability First–A New Generation of Warehouses
The idea of ‘sustainability’ was first introduced by the United Nations in 1987 and it kept developing continuously since. As recently as 2009, Pepsico famously introduced “Performing with conscience,” an environmentally friendly project which seemed to prove that sustainability was on its …
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How Close Are We To “Advanced Nuclear?”
Frequent commenter Frank Eggers calls our attention to an article on the development of liquid fluoride thorium reactors (LFTRs) in China, and points to this excerpt: “Professor Li, director of the project’s molten salt chemistry and engineering technology division, said …
Take a COOL Guess – the Fun Quiz on Clean Energy. Today’s Topic: Studies on Global Warming
Question: In 2013, there were 10,883 peer-reviewed scientific studies to the effect that global warming is real and caused by humans. In the same year, how many such studies took the opposite position? (New 2GreenEnergy readers should be aware that …
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