With the cost of electricity going up in most places, and people becoming more concerned about their carbon footprints, it makes sense that you’d want to take some steps to make your home more green. There are many thinks that …
From Sara Stringer: How To Get More Green Energy In Your Home Read More »
It’s the birthday of E. B. White (pictured), best known for his masterpiece for children Charlotte’s Web, and for his nonfiction collaborative work with William Strunk, Jr. published in 1918: The Elements of Style. Often referred to as “Strunk and …
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 …
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.
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 …
Have an Idea for Clean and Sustainable Energy/Water/Food? Costs Matter Read More »
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 …
Setback to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Read More »
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 …
Two Challenging Renewable Energy Investment Opportunities Read More »
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 …
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 …
“Beating the Oil Companies Is the World’s Biggest Problem” Read More »
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 …
