If I had to pick a single theme that cuts across the business buzzwords that prevailed over the last half-century, I think I’d choose “convergence.” The convergence of manufacturing and IT, of voice and data communications, of telephony and IT, …
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Achieving Sustainable Generation and Consumption of Energy Requires a Convergence of Technologies
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Unique Approach to Pumped Hydro Energy Storage
My friends at Eos Energy Systems tell me that far more than 95% of the world’s energy storage is pumped storage hydroelectricity (PSH) – which is one of the reasons they believe that their breakthrough in zinc-air batteries is so …
Creating the Right Incentives for Environmental Stewardship
Here’s an article that illustrates what happens when regulators get clever in creating incentives for environmental stewardship and responsibility: smart people work around them, unintended consequences result, and windfall profits occur in random places that have nothing to do with …
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Large CSP Plant Opens in Abu Dhabi
Here’s a short video that presents a shiny new CSP (concentrated solar power, aka solar thermal) plant in Abu Dhabi. This 100 MW installation cost $600 million, not exactly cheap. But CSP is a relatively new concept that hasn’t had …
The Adoption Curve for Electric Vehicles
Here’s an article that presents some specious logic associated with electric vehicle adoption. In particular, the greening of conventional vehicles militates away from, not towards, the adoption of EVs; the payback in fuel consumption for an EV is far more …
Tagged with: adoption of EVs, coal plants retired, coal-fired power plants, distributed generation, electric vehicle adoption, EV range, fossil fuel consumption, fossil fuels, greening of conventional vehicles, internalizing the externalities of gasoline, mid-sized wind, nuclear power plants, off-peak power, opportunity charging locations, smart grid, Tesla’s fast-charging locations, V2G, vehicle-to-grid, wind energy curtailed, wind energy negative prices
Carrots and Sticks: Rethinking Mobility
It’s always interesting to see what people are doing around the world with respect to pushing the paradigm shift in transportation. The concept of individual ownership of a 4000-pound car that is parked 23 hours a day, and has one …
Geo-engineering — The Grand-Daddy of All Decisions
By no means am I able to keep up on every idea within the realm of geo-engineering, i.e., taking active steps at a planetary level to counteract global warming. Here’s one that we hear about often, that apparently isn’t practical: “fertilizing” the …
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From Guest Blogger R. Hoyal: Should Corporate Company Cars Be Electric?
Congratulations. You have finally made it from the mailroom, to that position at the top of the business tree. If you want to spend your hard-earned wages on a brand new car then feel free. Sites such as Carsales always …
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Tagged with: BIK, business, businesses, Carbon Footprint, cars, CO2, company car, Corporate, Corporations, eco, electric, emissions, environmental, environmentally-friendly, green, hybrid, Plug-in Car Grant, profit, vehicle, vehicles
President Obama Tackles Climate Change in Inaugural Address
Just when I was starting to wonder if the subject of climate change would ever come up again in U.S. politics, President Obama makes a huge deal of it in his second inaugural address. This is a good thing, and …
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Photovoltaics, Biofuels, and Nuclear Energy – Some Food for Thought
Thanks to frequent commenter Tim Kingston for sending me these two articles with which I begin the work week here at 2GreenEnergy. First is a pro-nuke piece – certainly a concept that defies what I’ve come to believe, yet I try to …
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Tagged with: biofuels, economic collapse, global climate change, global warming, nuclear energy, photovoltaics, pro-nuke, solar energy
