The green energy sector is trapped in its efforts to produce innovative energy solutions. This seems unexplainable in an environment where consumers are looking for better and cheaper energy and engineers are coming up with more technologically advanced systems every …
Category: Renewables – Business
Energy Policy: Taking a Stand Against Fossil Fuels–Additional Discussion
Re: My piece called Energy Policy: Taking a Stand Against Fossil Fuels, frequent commenter MarcoPolo writes: Joe Public has grown weary of endless doomsday predictions that just don’t occur.
Have an Idea for Clean and Sustainable Energy/Water/Food? Costs Matter
Here’s a discussion I’m having with a fellow who proposes this idea for desalination, and is looking for help getting it off the ground: Reader: Where I need help is to strategize about a) how to get a water district …
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Setback to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Environmentalists everywhere were saddened that the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow to the Environmental Protection Agency with its recent ruling invalidating the EPA’s regulation of mercury and other toxic chemicals that are emitted from power plants. But at the …
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Two Challenging Renewable Energy Investment Opportunities
Two cleantech entrepreneurs wrote to me in the last couple of hours; one discussed a 30 MW wind farm in Michigan and the other a biogas plant in Poland—both legitimate renewable energy investment opportunities, but both flawed in the same …
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Costs of Solar and Wind are: Plummeting, Tumbling, Plunging, Crashing, or Nose-Diving—Pick the Word that Works for You
A reader asks for documentation re: my claim that the costs of solar and wind are “plummeting.” Here you go: Solar: The highly conservative International Energy Agency predicts the cost of solar energy will fall to around 4c/kWh in coming …
“Beating the Oil Companies Is the World’s Biggest Problem”
A reader notes: I live in New Zealand where 75% of our electricity is from hydro, geothermal, and wind. We could easily replace every bit of coal with more geothermal and be 100% renewable with political will. Shell in NZ …
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Venture Capital Versus Angel Investment
A reader with a new idea in the processing of biomass takes solace in a report that shows that venture capital is again embracing cleantech, meaning that the cleantech space is on the upswing. He notes: This gives hope to …
Are Venture Capitalists Conservative?
In response to my post Why Venture Capital Isn’t Embracing CleanTech, frequent commenter BreathOnTheWind asks, “Craig, you seem to have a good sense of the pulse of the VC world. Would you say as a group they tend to be …
Investment in Big Oil Is Soon To Tumble
I’m not the only one asserting that renewable energy is coming at us far faster than most people believe. This has several important implications that are going to cause a virtuous cycle, further accelerating the migration away from fossil fuels. …
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