I’m doing a writing project for a start-up in the renewable biofuels space, which has caused me to check out many dozens of competitors’ websites. Here’s one that bears comment; note the video, and how the company’s CEO starts with …
Category: Renewables – Business
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Norway’s Divestment from Fossil Fuels
Question: Norway (an oil state) is divesting its $1 trillion wealth fund from oil and gas companies. Why? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
High-Level Notes on the Green New Deal
Insofar as the concept of the “Green New Deal” is in the news, it’s worth looking at some of the broad ideas that would serve to support such a concept in general…or that might invalidate it as an unavoidably wasteful …
Tagged with: Green New Deal
Building Markets in CleanTech
Those of us who have been around the tech industry for a while have seen some interesting, cooperative plays among supposed “competitors” that are put into place in order to add force in the creation of new markets. But why …
Things Look Bright for Renewables, But There’s a Catch
According to the American Energy Society, the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) for solar (large scale PV) and wind (onshore) has fallen 13% and 7% in the last year, respectively.
Recipe for Clean Energy: Add a Little Chile
Chile just announced that it has joined a great number of other countries that are phasing coal out of their grid-mix. Their huge solar farm out in a desert provides the “cheapest unsubsidized energy ever, anywhere, by any technology.”
How Investors Are Surviving and Thriving in the Era of Climate Change
Bruce Wilson LEED AP certified building contractor in environmentally sustainable renovation, restoration and new construction, offers this: Efforts to combat climate change by reducing carbon emissions are taking on greater urgency.
Many Cleantech Jobs Cannot Be Automated
A top management consultant once quipped, “The factory of the future will have only two employees: a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from …
In the Adoption of Cleantech, the Carrot May Be More Effective Than the Stick
The “gloom and doom” messaging (including, often, my own) that pervades so many texts on environmentalism comes at a cost in terms of motivating its audience. In particular, the effect of scaring people about a phenomenon that is cascading over a …
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More Heroics from Germany
Germany has released its plan to close all 84 of its currently operating coal-fired power plants by 2038 and rely primarily on renewable energy. For decades, Germany has taken bold steps in the direction of renewables, a path that was …
