I just got back from a long lunch with a brand new intern here at 2GreenEnergy — Louis de Saint Phalle. A high-powered intellectual (he speaks five languages, and is highly educated, especially in economics and the physical sciences), Louis …
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National Security and Energy Policy
Tagged with: CATO Institute’s position on foreign oil and national security, CATO representative Jerry Taylor, Chinese/American relations and energy, Koch Brothers’ efforts to put Mitch McConnell in control of a Republican Senate majority, oil companies fight to ensure fossil fuels remains the de facto energy policy for a long as possible
2GreenEnergy Intern To Explore the Cutting-Edge of Technology Behind Solar Photovoltaics
I just got off the phone with a bright new intern at 2GreenEnergy, Avdit Kohli, who’s wrapping up his master’s degree in electrical engineering at Northeastern University in Boston. Insofar as Avdit’s main interest at this point is the technology …
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A Life of Pleasure and Sustainability with the Tesla Model S
The people at Tesla Motors are almost as good at making videos as they are at building cars. Here’s a four-minute story of a guy whose job entails building run-of-river hydro plants, using the enormous water resources of Norway. He …
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Sustainability and Jung’s Collective Unconscious
Among my planned stops today is an exhibit of the art of Carl Jung (pictured here in 1910). My only studies in this area take me back to my junior year in high school, where I was lucky enough to be …
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ExxonMobil and Climate Change
Writing for RenewableEnergyWorld, my colleague Jennifer Runyon begins her recent article on ExxonMobil and climate change: We don’t cover climate change news all that much here on RenewableEnergyWorld.com. The reason for that is that we view climate change as just …
ExxonMobil To Shareholders: Climate Change Is Real, and It’s Threatening
I had to laugh when I read this. Yes, ExxonMobil is acknowledging the fact of climate change. But from the headline, I inferred that the fossil fuel giant had come to terms with the fact that its products are ruining …
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2GreenEnergy Speaking on Sustainability at Community Planet
Here’s a talk I gave in Santa Barbara to a meeting of a group called “Community Planet.” It’s a small group, but they’re enlightened people; I was impressed with their level of engagement. I covered the technological, economic, and political …
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From Guest Blogger James Paulsen: Lean Manufacturing and Sustainability — An Approach All Companies Must Apply
Lean manufacturing, an important component to sustainability, has been applied by many companies since then and even the successful Toyota auto production is a product of this. Lean manufacturing makes use of an effective system that was developed years agoin …
Will Elon Musk Make Solar Energy Affordable?
Here’s a fairly bullish article on solar energy, but it takes an unusual twist, and ends up confusing readers. The levelized cost of energy that Goldman Sachs projects for PV-based energy 2030 is $0.20/kWh, which is far more than it …
Electric Transportation and Carbon Dioxide
I just received this: Today, Ford announced its decision to use GE charging stations for its workplace charging network. Ford plans to install the GE WattStation™ at more than 50 of its facilities throughout 2014. The stations will be networked …
