Public Service Electric & Gas (PSE&G), the largest gas and electric utility in New Jersey, is converting an oil coal-gas manufacturing facility in Trenton into a 1.3 MW solar farm. It will provide enough energy to power about 207 residences. …
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Promoting "Renewable Energy — Facts and Fantasies" — What Might This Be Like?
I didn’t create Renewable Energy — Facts and Fantasies with the aspirations of becoming the J.K. Rowling of clean energy. I honestly just wanted to have a book that answered people’s questions about a certain subject – albeit it an …
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Steve Blank on Capital Formation for Start-Ups
I thought I’d share this terrific article on how the investor market has changed. It cites the founder of Tesla cars and explains how he got millions in investment, in spite of the current venture capital climate. You’ll travel a …
Renewable Energy IQ Test
A few weeks ago, George Alger, my co-founder at 2GreenEnergy.com, asked me to take a break from my more serious writing and do something a bit whimsical. “What do you have in mind?” I asked. What he described was a …
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Concepts in Sustainability: Paper Made from Sugarcane Waste
When I mentioned 2GreenEnergy’s client Canefields USA in the past, I think I neglected to point out the video on the company’s website, detailing how paper from sugarcane waste is actually made. The world now has access to paper made …
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One More Post on the News Media, Objectivity, and Energy
I was somewhat surprised at the pushback I received to my recent post suggesting that the PBS NewsHour should not accept sponsorship money from Chevron, as such a relationship could affect PBS’s objectivity in its coverage of the energy industry. …
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Renewable Energy — Facts and Fantasies: Tales from Launch Day
A funny thing happened when we launched Renewable Energy Facts and Fantasies last week. Of course, I was hoping it would do well in the categories to which Amazon.com had assigned it: energy, engineering, and physics. And while it went …
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Should the News Coverage of the Energy Industry Meet Chevron's Approval?
I don’t think of myself as overly suspicious of the motives of others. But I have to say that I recoil at the end of every PBS NewsHour when Jim Lehrer signs off and we’re told that the broadcast was …
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Comments to "GM and the Chevy Volt – Can They Be Trusted?"
I received no fewer than 19 comments (and counting) to the post I put up on Renewable Energy World on “GM and Chevy Volt – Can They Be Trusted?” I knew this would be a hot topic. I notice how …
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Jigar Shah and the Carbon War Room
Jigar Shah is the CEO of the Carbon War Room in Washington DC, the non-profit brainchild of Sir Richard Branson that brings to bear the tools of free-market capitalism to forward the aims of sustainability in some terrifically clever ways. …
