It’s the birthday of John Steinbeck, whose gut-wrenching mid-20th Century novels shot through the American consciousness like jagged bolts of lightning. Joining with folk singers of the day, e.g., Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, Steinbeck awakened millions of Americans to …
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Building-Integrated Solar Thermal Hot Water Heating – an Innovative Approach
I know I’ve mentioned that I’m in pursuit of a manufacturing partner in the Americas for my client PlexiSun, developer of an innovative approach to building-integrated solar thermal hot water heating. By the term “building-integrated,” we mean that it doesn’t …
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Bullish on Tesla Motors?
It seems that almost every day, there is news, most of it incredibly good, about what Tesla, driven by charismatic entrepreneur Elon Musk, is up to. Recently, the news is the “Gigafactory,” to be located somewhere in the U.S. southwest, in …
Offshore Wind Is Pricey, But Comes With Extra Benefits
We love the concept of offshore wind: it’s out of sight, and it harvests huge wind resources that are unobstructed by buildings, trees, and mountains. The issue, obviously, is the price tag. According to the U.S. Energy Information Agency (part …
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From 2GreenEnergy Intern Olivier Goavec: Countries with Large Volumes of Variable Resources Face Difficulties with Grid Stability
I’d like to thank our wonderful intern from France, Olivier Goavec, for this very interesting piece on the challenges associated with integrating large volumes of variable resources into the grid-mix. I hope readers enjoy it. – ed When the Kyoto …
From 2GreenEnergy Intern Nikita Rao: The Future of the Nuclear Industry
Nuclear energy is the world’s largest source of emission-free energy. Nuclear power plants don’t produce air pollutants, sulfur or greenhouse gases. The United States has 65 commercially operating nuclear power plants with 104 nuclear reactors in 31 states around the …
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From 2GreenEnergy Intern Nikita Rao: The Addition of New Technologies
Recently, Science Daily published an article based on the research of scientists from the University of North Carolina and John Hopkins, outlining the results of adding renewable energy sources to the grid, and offering ideas on how to mitigate issues …
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Two Bad Ideas in the Last Ten Minutes
Within ten minutes of one another, I: 1) Got a call from someone with a perpetual motion machine that involves the movement of buoyant objects in water (I see at least two of these per year), and 2) Encountered this …
International Panel on Climate Change Has a Tough Job
I just did a phone interview for a young lady writing a paper for a course she’s taking in college, which reminded me of how passionate the youth of today is about climate change and the environment more generally. She …
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From Guest Blogger Leslie Kramer: Five Cool Ways Your Neighborhood Can Band Together To Become Greener
One person trying to become greener is great, but if they can persuade their entire neighborhood to do it we’ll all be able to make a much bigger difference. Are you old enough to remember what neighborhoods used to be …
