I hope readers enjoyed the webinar I did recently with solar energy hedge fund manager Shawn Kravetz; I certainly learned a great deal in the course of the interview. I wanted to take a moment and introduce another “friend of …
Roen Financial Report on the Ardour Solar Energy Index Read More »
Wow, I sure wish I had bought some stock in Tesla when the ultra-sexy Model S came out. The company, though still not profitable, looks very close to turning that corner, and the market knows it. In terms of the …
I concluded the 45-minute talk I gave yesterday at the Santa Barbara Savvy Investors’ Club with a short section on cleantech opportunities, during which I highlighted my belief that smart-grid is going to play a fantastically important role in the …
Smart-Grid Is Happening Right Now, and Not a Second Too Soon Read More »
Insulation. It’s hardly the most glamorous of topics is it? Compared to much more fashionable renewable energy solutions like solar panels and geothermal installations it could even be considered positively boring. After all, how can anybody get excited about the …
Here’s an article from the Sierra Club that includes a cool animated piece on oil from tar sands, illustrating why this subject, and the Keystone XL pipeline in particular, is such a bad idea. It’s bad for everyone living on …
I never know what to make of the frequent references I come across to the International Monetary Fund. Who exactly are these mysterious and terribly powerful people? How do they work? What are their true motivations? In any case, they …
International Monetary Fund Calls for Reform on Subsidies for Fossil Fuels Read More »
Here’s the “teaser” for my talk this afternoon at the Santa Barbara Savvy Investors’ Club. As implied here, I intend to make a wide-ranging presentation that gets into some philosophic stuff; I know this audience from past meetings, and I …
Talking About Clean Energy and Sustainability in Santa Barbara Read More »
Here’s an article that lays out three choices available to electricity rate-payers: deregulation (“customer choice”), municipal aggregation (“city choice”), and municipal utilities (“city ownership”), and goes on to discuss the merits of each. In the last case, a municipality’s purchasing …
Electricity Rate-payers in Austin, TX Take Progressive Stance on Renewable Energy Read More »
Longtime 2GreenEnergy supporter Aedan Kernan commented on my piece bemoaning the U.S. government’s failing to respond to the will of the people, and clinging onto a de facto energy policy that is rooted in fossil fuels. Aedan lives in the …
Denmark's "Community" Approach to Renewable Energy Read More »
Frequent commenter and all-around good guy Tim Kingston sent me this video on an ostensible breakthrough in solar PV for my comment. I see claims like this constantly, and I’m never sure exactly how to evaluate them, since this isn’t …
