My dear friend, perennial client, and 2GreenEnergy Assoociate Terry Ribb is an avid futurist, and thus a huge fan of innovation. The videos linked below deal with “cashier-free smart grocery stores,” and are very typical of the cool things she …
Why Is There Such a Low Incentive To Innovate in the CleanTech Space? Read More »
Frequent commenter MarcoPolo writes: The solar and wind industries are both heavily dependent of government and consumer subsidies. When those subsidies are modified or withdrawn the industries suffer massive constrictions. Solar and wind employment is a little like a gold …
Solar, Wind, and the Future of Human Civilization Read More »
The solar and wind energy industries are growing at rates that even experts didn’t predict. Solar energy sector jobs grew at a rate 17 times faster (and wind jobs 9 times faster) than the overall U.S. economy in 2016. Of course, this …
Good News for U.S. Workers–And On Labor Day, No Less Read More »
A reader mentions a series of meetings he attended on technologies that can be applied to coal plants to clear up their emissions, and, in reference to one of them, notes: This is just one of many potential “cleaner fossil …
New Technologies—Clean or Otherwise—Face Steep Hurdles Read More »
There is some truth to this meme, but in fairness, euphoria about tax breaks for corporations and the super-wealthy, as well as the sheer joy associated with destroying the environment with financial impunity are weighing in here. The S&P 500 …
Is It Obama or Trump Who’s Driving Up the Stock Market? Read More »
How does progressive government policy apply the right kind of pressure on a market economy to drive its fuel consumption in the direction of low carbon emissions? I sure wish there were an easy answer to that question, but there …
What Happens in California Most Definitely Doesn’t Stay in California Read More »
Doesn’t it always feel good to get a bargain? Don’t we have greater affinity for the possessions we acquired at some fabulous discount than those for which we feel we might have overpaid? Well, good news: this same good feeling …
I get a real charge out of obviously disingenuous remarks. Yesterday we had Donald Trump’s thanking Vladimir Putin for expelling 755 members of the U.S. state department from Russia, on the basis that this will reduce the U.S. federal government’s …
In the Energy Industry and Elsewhere, We’re Surrounded by BS Read More »
Would-be entrepreneurs sometimes fall into the trap of being too close to their idea to see it objectively, and wrongly assume that everyone’s as enthusiastic about it as they are themselves. This seems to be a wonderful case in point: …
You’re a cleantech businessperson with a solid, commercially viable concept that, if implemented, could make a transformative difference in our civilization’s ability to deal with its environmental challenges. But you have a problem. Maybe it’s lack of capital. Perhaps you’re …
