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 …
Category: Renewables – Business
Venture Capital Not Embracing Renewable Energy Start-Ups
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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Two Good Questions on Clean Energy and Sustainability
Last evening, I had an interesting conversation with a reader that I’d thought I’d share. She asked two good questions: 1) Won’t our efforts to migrate away from fossil fuels hurt our economy? I explained that this is complex. Certainly paying …
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Welcome to Nikita Rao, Author on the Electric Power Industry
I’m delighted to announce that a razor-sharp graduate student at USC, Nikita Rao, will be joining us at 2GreenEnergy as an intern. Her master’s program focused on the electric power industry, a topic that I know we’d all like to …
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From Guest Blogger Jess: Renewable Energy Meetups
Are you concerned with resource sustainability? Are you a firm believer in the need for renewable and alternative energy for the improvement and continued existence of life on earth? You wouldn’t be alone; this is an issue important to millions, …
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CleanTech Is Essential
Here’s a blog post by a brilliant young man, Sheeraz Haji, along the lines of what I wrote about 60 Minutes’ galaxy-sized blunder in its coverage of cleantech. His first point is probably his strongest: Cleantech is essential. It’s not …
Capitalism and Environmentalism
In response to my post on the need to develop an energy policy, a brainy friend of mine sent me this extremely interesting and detailed piece on the relationship between capitalism and our need to preserve our environment. I’m still …
Moving Your CleanTech Business Forward
Over the last few months, I took on several clients for whom I delivered marketing of some type: social media, public relations, demand generation, content creation, the establishment of strategic business partnerships, etc. Now, some of these projects are coming …
Environmental Engineering Wants Feedback on the Renewable Energy Industry
A young man from Peru writes: Hi, I am 21 years old and I study environmental engineering. I have been thinking what to do after I finish, and I came to the conclusion that I want to specialize in renewable …
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To Achieve a Sustainable Approach to Energy We Need a Plan
In a discussion I had yesterday with an old friend and long-time 2GreenEnergy subscriber, I was reminded of how outrageous it is that the United States has no energy policy. Is it really any wonder we’re making such dreadfully slow …
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