I spoke with a gentleman this morning about an ostensible breakthrough in converting different types of plastics to high-octane gasoline and high-quality diesel. I was saddened (though not surprised) when I received the business plan, and promptly reported back as …
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Barking Up the Right Tree with Offshore Marine Facility
Here’s a project that touches on renewable energy only obliquely, but I thought readers might enjoy it as it’s staggeringly large. Craig: Please (check out the concept for) Float Inc. marine technologies. As the various governments in the US have …
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Concept in Ocean Current Energy
A gentleman from South Africa asked for my feedback on a new concept in hydrokinetics aimed at capturing energy from ocean currents. I hope a few readers will find my response interesting: Hi, and thanks very much for sharing this …
Grading Cleantech Business Plans as “Good” vs. “Best”
A reader offers me advice re: my reviewing cleantech business plans with an eye towards identifying “the best.” He writes: Given your line of work, you might want to be more politically aware in your statements. Instead of saying that …
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Concentrated Solar Power – Will It Have Its Day?
Anyone who has written off CSP as a technology whose level cost of energy is doomed to remain hopelessly cost-ineffective needs to know that the Saudis are installing this stuff at a record-setting pace. Why wouldn’t a country sitting on …
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Hydrokinetics and Biofouling
Regarding a recent post on the validity of ocean wave energy, my friend, top-level author Tom Blakeslee (pictured here; see ClearLight Press) writes: Look at the underside of boats and docks…filled with barnacles and growth. Maintenance could be a nightmare. …
Our Sensibilities Are Changing at an Incredible Speed
For those who think that human attitudes and glaciers move at the same pace, check out this gag set of Christmas cards from Ayn Rand. Yes, you’ll chuckle, but remember that it was only 50 years ago that many intellectuals …
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Is Humankind "Wired" to Survive the Onslaught of Environmental Catastrophe?
Do you tend to wonder if our civilization is becoming more “civilized?” I do. We’d all like to believe that humankind is making progress, meaning, among other things, that an increasing percentage of our species is accorded what we would …
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Financing of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) Projects
A reader offers this comment on my belief that ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) can represent a cost-effective way to deliver clean energy to the equatorial regions of the world. He writes: (OTEC) will require an investor with deep pockets …
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The Disappearance of Low- and Medium-Speed Electric Vehicles
In response to my piece on the lack-luster adoption curve for electric vehicles, a commenter who’s been with us for over five years writes: Not all of us, perhaps, but if someone could build something that was electric instead of …
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