Renewable Energy Projects Require Focus
As a result of my expressing my willingness to review any and all clean energy business plans for free, I’ve received some doozies.
One I got the other day caused me to think: exactly what works in terms of gaining acceptance from the investor community? What doesn’t have a chance? I’ve laid out my response below.
First, however, here’s a summary of the business plan in question. It came from a woman who claims that her team will take a part of the U.S. desert, build and operate a megawatt of geo-thermal power systems, build a 250 mile pipeline for water that they can extract somehow, help out an Indian tribe with water while cleaning up a river and a lake, implement vast amounts of wind and solar PV, implement algae as a fuel source, build resort dwellings with an institute of healing and a 9-hole golf course.
I wrote back: (more…)
A reader who claims to have a great improvement in wind-turbine design on a per-kW basis sent me a fairly detailed treatment of his invention. I respond:
