I had a nice chat with my brother yesterday during which he asked my opinion of a company called Hydro Alternative Energy (HAE). Looking at their website just now, I notice they write: (Ocean) currents can be thought of as …
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Electric Transportation Will Provide Numerous Benefits
As pointed out in this article, the presence of electric vehicles plugged into our grid will one day provide a great number of different benefits, largely in terms of “ancillary services,” but also in terms of absorbing off-peak power, and, …
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On Taking Care of Mother Earth
Recently, one reader made an impassioned comment on our need to take care of our planet, and another responded: There is no “Mother Earth”, nor are we required to be “good stewards”, to anyone but our own best interests. I …
From Guest Blogger Heather Roberts: Waste to Energy Renewable Solutions
There is an ever-growing increase of waste materials being generated by human activity and habitation, which have commonly known hazardous effects on the local environment and human health — and they need to be addressed in a way that allows …
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Run-of-River Hydro Projects in Southern Brazil
Each month, I submit an article for publication in the “Hedge Connection,” a marketing platform for hedge funds and an information portal for investors, in which I extol the virtues of one of our renewable energy investment opportunities. Here’s this …
Air Umbrella
The message here is simple: If there is a way to waste energy and other environmental resources on frivolous junk, we’ll find it. The product also has the virtue of flinging more rain on other people around the user. I’d …
Replacing Coal with Natural Gas
As I wrote yesterday, a wholesale replacement of coal-fired power plants with natural gas has short-term appeal, but an unacceptable array of long-term unintended consequences, e.g., creating an environment in which the development of renewable energy isn’t financially attractive. The …
The Future of Biofuels
If there’s anyone I respect in the biofuels industry, it’s Jim Lane, editor & publisher of Biofuels Digest, the most widely-read biofuels daily and newsletter. He knows that I’m not a huge believer, but we had a very detailed and …
Cheap Natural Gas May Be the Devil’s Bargain
From the days in which I used to ply my trade as a marketing consultant to the Fortune 50 tech companies: IBM, H-P, Sony, Xerox, 3M, Microsoft, etc., I recall one particular client who rebuked “consultants” generally. Although he and …
I Try To Write in the Active Voice, and I Say: DuPont’s $500 Million Biofuel Bet Is Bound To Fail
Verbs in Western languages have something called “voice”: active and passive. “Bob hit the ball,” is in the active voice. Here we have a subject, the active verb “hit,” and an object. I could have written, “The ball was hit …
