When I conducted my “25 interviews with subject matter experts” for my first book on renewable energy (Renewable Energy – Facts and Fantasies) in 2010, I came away with a fairly exuberant viewpoint on CSP (concentrated solar power, aka solar …
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Up until a few years ago, I regularly attended the advanced battery conferences, trying to figure out the state of battery technology vis-à-vis its most important applications: a) storing variable sources of energy (wind and solar) for utilities and consumers, …
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I heard a wonderful radio show this afternoon that discussed the human perception of value. Is a $200 bottle of wine really better than a $20 bottle? We certainly think and behave as if this were true. Not only do …
My fourth book, Bullish on Renewable Energy, is now up on Amazon. As the subtitle suggests, I present: • Fourteen reasons that I believe renewable energy is rapidly becoming the deal of the century, • The way in which the …
I was surprised and delighted when a cousin I hadn’t seen in 35 years called me out of the blue from her home in Northern Vermont over the weekend. No surprise here: her town has a fairly decent sized (1 …
Here’s a “Ted Talk” that outlines the worst-case climate change scenario. The presenter is correct in that the IPCC’s projections are very likely on the conservative side, insofar as they need to be accepted by many hundreds of scientists before they’re …
Here’s a video featuring two people, both, in my opinion, among the world’s ten most talented people. Most of it is about religious wars, but is made relevant to our environmental theme by this suggestion as to what comes after we …
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Here’s an infographic on the subject of sustainability that a reader sent me. I hope readers will appreciate it, even though I’m glad I’m not the one who has to tell the world’s indigenous people, John Muir, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, …
From today’s New York Times – and two replies from a team of scientists that has added me to their distribution list: • Only if each of us chooses to be a coward. • More likely if we are stupid. So …
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When you get a chance, please check out the revisions to the 2GreenEnergy website, where we’ve sharpened our focus on cleantech business strategy. This is echoed in a few different places around the site, but it’s spelled out on the …
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