According to my calculations, I just passed the one million word milestone in terms of blog posts here. The books add another 400K or so. I’m reminded of the great Gary Larson and his famous installment of “The Far Side,” …
Category: Renewables – Business
Let’s Support the “Carbon Fee and Dividend”
There are a great number of different ways to address the long-term environmental damage, climate disruption in particular, posed by our civilization’s consumption of fossil fuels. The problem, obviously, is an economic one.
Renewable Energy and Crowdfunding
A friend sent me this piece earlier today on the concept of crowdfunding for renewable energy. In the main, I’m not a fan of crowdfunding in this space—for the same reason that VCs tend to avoid the subject: it’s capital …
Deutsche Post DHL Goes Green in a Big Way
Deutsche Post DHL is the result of the privatization of Germany’s post office and its merger with parcel and logistics giant DHL; its operations around the globe generate annual revenues exceeding 51 billion Euros. Last week, Deutsche Post DHL passed …
Renewable Energy Advocates Shop at Trader Joe’s
Click “read more” for a shot I took in the parking lot of Trader Joe’s. Needless to say, there’s a wonderful correlation of demographics between TJ’s shoppers and renewable energy advocates; it’s the same reason that one sees lots of Volvos …
Will Google Sit Around And Watch the World of 20th Century Fossil Fuels Destroy the Planet?
My colleague Gary Tulie is helping me with some of the research and writing surrounding my current book project (working title: “Bullish on Renewable Energy – Eleven Reasons Why Clean Energy Investors Can’t Lose”). To that end, he recently sent …
Take a COOL Guess – the Fun Quiz on Clean Energy. Today’s Topic: Turning Wind Energy in Baseload with Compressed Air Energy Storage
Question: We all know that power-purchase agreements are being signed in various parts of the world, e.g., the plains states of the U.S. –at under three cents/kWh, far less than the cost of producing energy from coal. But wind is …
Bullish on Renewable Energy?
The theme of my new book project (working title is “Bullish on Renewable Energy – Eleven Reasons Why Clean Energy Investors Can’t Lose”) is that the economic factors that are making clean energy cheap are heading forward at a rate …
Investment Bank UBS: Fossil-Fuel-Based Power Plants To Become Obsolete
Here’s a report that’s music to my ears; it begins: Investment bank UBS just released a report claiming centralized fossil-fuel power plants could soon be obsolete. The precipitating factors? Solar power, energy storage and electric vehicles. Looks like I’m not …
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That’s “Trillions” with a “T” — Investments in Renewable Energy Outpacing Those in Fossil Fuels
Of the $7.7 trillion that will be invested in new power generation capacity between now and 2030, $5.1 trillion will come in the form of renewable energy—mostly solar and wind. That’s why, when I attend top-level conferences on clean energy …
