Demand for Renewable Energy About To Explode

The net of all this, as I conclude in my book, is that there is an enormous amount of pent-up demand for renewables, and that the migration in that direction is about to explode.


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But Shell continues to fund ALEC, a group that has been spreading disinformation about climate change for years. (more…)

One of the chapters deals with the upheaval in the world of the power utilities, i.e., how re-regulation, RPSs, distributed generation and negative growth are conspiring to make investors in these businesses very nervous. Illustrative of all this mess is the fact that whole communities are forming their own microgrids and telling their utilities to take a flying leap (see pic above). Here’s an article about this exact phenomenon, taking place in a small burg in Germany.

In this article, leading economists explain how addressing the climate issue will actually stimulate the economy. (more…)

I’ve always been very intrigued by renewable energy and was curious if there are positions for meteorologists within the field. If there are not I would also be interested in knowing if there are any other positions I would be able to apply for with my degree being in meteorology, something I could apply my knowledge of science towards perhaps. I wasn’t sure how to research this so i figured I would contact a few companies directly. If you have any information on this I would greatly appreciate it if you could email me with some details.
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Apparently Henrik Fisker is back with a new set of promises, claiming that he’ll be unveiling two new cars on November 20, a media day at next month’s LA Auto Show. Back-to-back press conferences are scheduled with no details yet revealed, except for the fact that one of them is predicted to be more of a muscle car than an environmentally sound, fuel-efficient model.
Sorry if I have a bad taste in my mouth here. Even if I thought the world needs a new muscle car (which, of course, I don’t), I still remember my annual sojourns to the Los Angeles Auto Show in the 2000-aughts, and how turned off I was to Fisker’s soon-to-be-aborted range-extended hybrid. Each year, the ropes around the prototype kept us a few feet farther away from actually touching it, and each year the story about the price and release date became even more vague and disenchanting.
I feel a sudden yawn coming on…