With respect to my recent post on Malthus (pictured), a college professor in Arizona writes: Craig, is there a Malthusian Trap for energy? Do we run out of energy or a habitable environment first? I’m confident that our civilization will turn …
Category: Renewables – Science
Openness To New Energy Ideas
In the comments to my post on new energy paradigms, a reader takes me to task: I find your comments disingenuous, Craig, as I have mostly seen you play the comfortable role of the skeptic when it comes to out-of-the-box …
New Energy Paradigm–It Could Happen
It is true that humankind may be the beneficiary of a radical new approach to energy that will come along and save us from the vast environmental damage that our use of fossil fuels is wreaking upon our planet.
What the Migration to Renewable Energy Looks Like
A reader notes: Renewable power generation technology faces three inherent problems: transmission, storage, and intermittent generating dynamics. Large scale economically viable storage solves the problems of all three to a major extent. We can but live in hope, and encourage all those …
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Hard To Put Too Much Credence into Certain New Clean Energy Ideas
As an example of a strange communication between a reader and me, Mark writes: Hello Craig: You may recall we had some discussions earlier this year regarding an emerging new technology which we believed was going to revolutionize the way …
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13.7 Billion Years—Reduced to 18 Minutes
Have you ever seen a presentation that was so powerful and compelling that you felt a strange impulse to memorize it verbatim? That’s exactly what just happened to me. Here’s a Ted Talk on the history of the universe (“Big …
Sunlight as an Energy Source
From my Quora.com feed, in which I’ve volunteered to answer questions related to science, a young reader asks: Can we trap light and use it as an energy source? Ovis writes: Almost all sources of energy on Earth is in …
From 2GreenEnergy Intern Fabio Porcu: “SALt” Technology
We live in a world in which more and more people need electricity to light their homes, and the demand always seems to be greater than the supply. Several billion people on the planet need lighting and electricity but do …
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We’re Luckier Than We Think
Though it’s hardly a new idea, I’d like to take a moment and point out how incredibly unlikely it is that we’re having this “conversation” right now. We’re all aware that we live on a “Goldilocks” planet, i.e., one that’s …
Breakthrough in Solar Energy? Nope.
A reader wants to raise many millions of dollars to develop the technology described in this presentation, claiming that it’s a breakthrough in generating energy from the sun without using PV or CSP. I respond: Sorry, but this makes no …
