Solar Junction, the solar energy company based in Silicon Valley that offers high efficiency solar energy cells for the concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) market, has created a new energy efficiency record for its commercially ready solar cells. Vijit Sabnis Co-Founder of …
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Take a COOL Guess – the Fun Quiz on Clean Energy. Today’s Topic: Eco-friendly Gold
Question: Can you guess the average amount of mine waste that results from the production of one gold ring? Answer: Can be found at http://2greenenergy.com/cool-guess-answers/8732. Relevance: Everyone likes gold rings, but, considering we’re all concerned about sustainability, we may want …
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Solar PV Facility at Fort Hunter Liggett Is the Largest Array on a U.S. Military Base
Here’s a video that shows where I spent my afternoon: on a tour of the (currently) 2 megawatt solar photovoltaics facility at Fort Hunter Liggett in Central California, now the largest solar array on a military base in the U.S. …
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A Changing Ethos: What Happens When It's Cool To Be Green?
My friend Tom Konrad of AltEnergyStocks.com responds to my piece earlier today on the effectiveness of the Sierra Club’s attack on coal. He writes: While I strongly support the Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal” campaign, and feel it has made a …
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Concentrated Solar Power Mated With Biogas
Here’s an article on the use of natural gas mated with concentrated solar power (CSP). The central issue facing CSP is achieving temperatures high enough to minimize thermodynamic heat losses, and, for most configurations, that means coupling the troughs and …
Politics and Environmentalism
An old friend writes: Craig: I filled out my mail-in ballot yesterday, and saw Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate’s name for the first time. Unfortunately, I hadn’t heard anything about her until I saw her on the ballot. Why …
Tagged with: fossil fuels, Green Party, Jill Stein, libertarian, politics and environmentalism, Ralph Nader
A Question on Geoengineering
Howard writes: Have you heard of a technology where they simulate a volcano eruption by injecting sulfur dioxide into the sky, in a sense cooling the planet. I heard about this in the New Yorker magazine, and in a book …
Environmental Groups Are Often Quite Effective
One of the things that gives me hope for the world is that the protests of individuals and groups have the potential to be extremely effective. For example, what the Sierra Club has done with coal is amazing to me. …
What’s the Take-Away from Fukushima?
We often read articles that acknowledge that, while Fukushima was indeed a disaster, that it caused an unwarranted spike in fear of danger of nuclear power, and that this alarmist message was spread by those with an anti-nuclear agenda. On …
New Mexico — Land of Enchantment and Environmentalism
I know I’m not the only American who has looked at a political map of the 50 states and wondered, “Wow. Are there really that many democrats in New Mexico? Hell, it’s next to Texas!” The answer, in a word, …
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