Achieving Economies of Scale with Clean Energy Concepts
My colleague Aedan Kernan helped us out with many different writing projects in the old days of 2GreenEnergy, though I thought we had lost touch with one another. But in response to my piece on inductive EV charging and other concepts that need to “go big or go home,” he writes: On advanced rail energy storage (ARES), don’t you see niche opportunities for the technology where water is scarce and there is a large capacity of intermittent renewables, creating power balancing and quality issues? (more…)
We Californians, living as we do in severe drought conditions, have a general sense that climate change is playing a role here. It’s not exactly rocket science that rising temperatures tend to evaporate more water, leaving less of it in the ground where it is available to our plants and animals.
