Up until yesterday, there has been some level of lingering doubt as to the cost-effectiveness of electricity from renewables in a direct comparison to coal and natural gas. That debate is essentially gone at this point, given Solar Reserve’s bid …
Category: Renewables – Business
Holland Is So Cool….
As suggested in this short video, The Netherlands is really kicking butt in the world, in terms of nearly everything that matters. Perhaps the U.S. could take some direction from people who are getting it right.
Energy Investment Non-Starters
Most of the clean energy “investment opportunities” I turn down are marred by huge technology risk, requirement for additional development capital, lack of “skin in the game” on the part of developers, an exec team clearly comprised of yahoos, or …
Market Forces Driving the Adoption of Renewables
Here’s another installment of my colleague Jon LeSage’s Green Auto Digest, which I happily republish–even when his viewpoints diverge from my own. Here, Jon makes the point that market forces are driving the energy industry increasingly in the direction of …
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How Well Has Government Investment in Clean Energy Worked?
A commenter notes: The U.S. Department of Energy and other government funding institutions have invested vast sums in failed projects. This is true (depending on how one defines “vast”), but grossly misleading. Overall, 80% of all businesses fail within the …
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Tagged with: investment in clean energy
About the Renewable Energy “Boom”
A commenter notes about the green energy “boom,” The kind of reckless, overly optimistic, excessive spending that typifies a “boom” has largely dissipated, as new (sic) technologies mature. No one ever knowing participates in “reckless, overly optimistic, excessive spending.”
Disruptive Technological Innovation Can’t Happen Too Soon
I met Bruce Wilson when we were in kindergarten together 57 years ago at a Quaker school (Penn Charter) in Philadelphia. In the course of the 13 years that followed our initial introduction, culminating in our graduation in 1973, he …
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India: Taking Important Steps Towards Clean Energy
Here’s some good news from my colleague Jon LeSage and his Green Auto Digest, albeit a bit tentative, regarding India and the challenges it faces to provide clean energy and transportation to its huge population–one which is expected to overtake …
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Tagged with: coal to power its burgeoning electricity grid, decrease in the cost of clean energy and batteries, Gigafactory, Green Auto Digest, import of oil, India providing clean energy and transportation to its huge population, India's Prime Minister Modi, investments in renewable energy, Tesla's Elon Musk
Trump Is Powerless To Inflict Damage Everywhere
When I was a little boy my mother told me, “One of the reasons it’s important to get a good education is that it’s the one thing no one can take away from you.” Fifty years later, we have a …
Tagged with: 6.5 million families worldwide are flourishing via paychecks coming from the solar industry alone, Donald Trump and the renewable energy industry, installing solar PV, solar growing at 17 times the rate of the economy as a whole, Trump and his friends in Big Oil, Trump's connection to the expansion of fossil fuel extraction and consumption
Why Aren’t We Paying Attention at this Horrific Period in U.S. History?
Caption to the cartoon (if it’s too small to read): “My God, we’ve run out of gin!” I attended a cocktail reception last evening hosted by my old school, William Penn Charter, a small 325-year-old Quaker school in Philadelphia. I …
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