A colleague in the run-of-river hydro business sent me this piece earlier today, on the ascension of green energy jobs in general. Worldwide, 5.7 million people worked in the clean energy industry in 2012, about 10% of whom were Americans …
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Yesterday I was a guest for a 30-minute segment of “The Solar Fit Renewable Energy Show” — a weekly radio program coming out of WNZF in Daytona Beach, FL, during which I mentioned the need to rethink the way we regulate …
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A friend in the UK and I were just comparing notes on how hard it is to sell huge volumes of books. While this is true, I pointed out that I don’t regret the enormous amount of time I’ve invested …
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Here’s a recent piece of mine that Energy Manager Today ran earlier this week – an article on the CBS “60 Minutes” outrageous mistreatment of the cleantech industry.
The recent announcements around energy price increases has reminded us all that fuel poverty is a very real concern for UK consumers. The government’s recent Public Attitudes Tracker poll showed 48% of people in the UK are now worried about …
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Readers will note the new “ESPAÑOL” tab on our navigation here. I believe this is the best way to offer the Spanish translations of many of the pages that 2GreenEnergy supporter Alejandro Manrique is cranking out. Muy bien, Alejandro. Gracias. …
That sounds a bit enigmatic, doesn’t it? Here’s my thinking. Paul Allen (co-founder of Microsoft, net worth about $25 billion) owns the Seahawks. If they win, he’ll be happy – and even a bit richer, as the value of his …
Working from his office in Argentina, 2GreenEnergy supporter Alejandro Manrique has been helping us tell our story to the Spanish-speaking people of the world for many years. Not too long ago, he wrote this article on my second book: “Is …
Every month or so, someone sends me this concept: the Solar Wind Energy Tower, with its claim that it will generate energy cost-effectively, and asks me to comment. I defer to more senior minds in the physical sciences, but I …
Here’s an article on “following the money” in cleantech that speaks to a troubling fact in renewable energy: venture capital would far rather chase arenas that are less capital intensive. In fact, Ray Lane, then managing partner at Kleiner Perkins, …
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