Of all the clean energy investment opportunities I’ve come across in the last year, I have to put this in my top two or three. It’s a project that will generate electricity from a municipal solid waste site (one plant …
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Grid-Scale Energy Storage from Batteries – Soon To Be Economically Viable
A happy consequence of humankind’s progress in energy technology is that all the major components associated with the generation, transmission, distribution, and consumption of energy are improving simultaneously. Here at 2GreenEnergy, we tend to talk mainly about generation, perhaps because …
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Environmentalism and the Future of Humankind
You and I have a great number of features in common, one of which is obvious: neither of us wants to die. But, though we try to keep the thought of death out of our immediate consciousness, in the back …
Hiking in Solar Photovoltaics Territory
Sundays are normally hiking day for me. Last weekend, a friend and I walked from our little town (Santa Ynez, CA) over the mountains to the south of us and down to the beach, a total of 10.8 miles, with …
Terrorism Threats Militate Toward Distributed Generation
Much has been written about the recent Wall Street Journal article asserting that the U.S. grid is vulnerable to a terrorist attack which could have a crippling and long-lasting (18-month) effect. This, of course, is another good reason to push …
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Do Wind Turbines Affect Human Health?
A colleague sent me this piece from New York Magazine on the so-called “wind-turbine syndrome,” a name given to the health effects that some people say are caused by living close to wind farms. This syndrome is not accepted by …
Educating Our Children About the Coal Industry and Mountaintop Removal
We have choices to make in the books we read to our young children, and it’s interesting to see how these options have developed and changed over time. Many of the Grimm’s Fairy Tales and dozens of other stories that …
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Cleantech Appeals To Real Patriots
When I speak on the subject of renewable energy or sustainability more generally, I normally mention that making an investment in cleantech is among the most patriotic things that an American can do. In particular, clean energy will be the defining …
Trend Toward Energy Efficiency and Conservation
Senior energy analyst and frequent 2GreenEnergy commenter Glenn Doty wrote something the other day that I find interesting: ….The thing is, our end-use electric consumption is likely never going to decrease. We’ve more or less stopped the rapid increase in …
Hot Interview on the History of Solar Energy
I’m looking forward to Monday afternoon, when, at 2 PM, I’ll be interviewing John Perlin, author of the definitive treatise on the history of solar energy, “Let It Shine: The 6000-Year Story of Solar Energy in a Nutshell.” Lester Brown, …
