Question: The Koch brothers spent $20 million to pass the tax reform scam. What’s their ROI, i.e., the annual percent return they’re getting on that $20 million investment? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: As Bernie Sanders says, “The …
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The Solar Industry Takes a Hit, But It’s Not Alone
As I mentioned in a post the other day, a presidential administration whose mantra is “jobs!” should not take actions whose main consequence is putting people out of work, At the time, I was referring to the tariff on solar modules …
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Trump Desperate To Expand Fossil Fuels–But Here’s Why He’s Failing
People say that Trump is so impetuous and unpredictable that he’s impossible to deal with. That may be true in certain cases, but certainly not in his energy policy, which is extremely consistent; it’s all about bringing back jobs in …
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Top Renewable Energy Author/ Consultant/Investor Evaluates Cleantech Business Concepts Free of Charge
As the old saying goes, “Businesses are like babies: fun to conceive, but hell to deliver.” And in cleantech, there’s an excellent reason this is true, according to best-selling author, business consultant, and investment coordinator, Santa Barbara, CA-based Craig Shields. …
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From Guest Blogger Ryan: FloWater–Fighting Plastic One Bottle at a Time
Plastic waste is killing our environment one day at a time. Right now in the U.S. alone, we have over 2,000 active landfills, and the average American throws out about four and a half pounds of garbage each day. Did …
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Renewable Energy Has Won the Battle, But Not the War
Many readers have correctly noted that 2GreenEnergy has taken on a more political tone as the years have gone by. The reason is summed up in my most recent book: Bullish on Renewable Energy, and in this article in Forbes.
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As Solar and Wind Prices Continue To Fall, Markets Become Less Attractive
According to the Energy Society: Renewable energy prices have become competitive around the world:
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Good News in the Energy Industry
Here’s a piece of unqualified good news: The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the arm of the federal government that serves to manage and control the energy industry, has rejected Secretary of Energy Rick Perry’s plan to rewrite U.S. energy policy …
Carbon Emissions and Our Energy Mix: A Problem That Will Take of Itself
Here’s an article that explains how the European Union has agreed on what the author refers to as “ambitious” renewable energy targets (30%) for 2030. Though this is obviously good news, I join those who believe that such targets are …
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Pros and Cons of Renewable Energy
Shortly after we kicked off 2GreenEnergy in 2009, I made a series of videos called “The Pros and Cons of Renewable Energy,” where, in each segment, I talked about a certain technology: wind, solar, biomass, hydrokinetics, and geothermal, and listed, …
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