A visitor to quora.com writes: Please give me an example of light energy. All light is energy. Visible light is a tiny part of the electromagnetic spectrum, i.e., electric and magnetic fields that oscillate back and forth, in this …
Category: Renewables – Science
Renewable Energy Can Power the World
Frequent commenter “Breath on the Wind” writes: This popped up on my alerts. Perhaps you will also find it interesting. The main take-away is that it counters arguments that renewable technology is not capable of replacing more than a small …
When Will Renewables Dominate the World Energy Industry?
Mike Bernard asks: Given that the rate of the move from fossil fuel derived energy to renewable energy is constantly accelerating. How long until renewable energy gets to 80% across all sectors? This is an interesting, albeit unanswerable question. I …
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From a Guest Blogger: How Technology and Communications Work Together to Improve Healthcare
Healthcare today is suffering due to a severe lack of finances. There are not enough doctors and nurses to go around and when it comes to a need for an immediate diagnosis or treatment, this lack of qualified medical professionals …
Notes From the Ultimate Renewable Energy Do-It-Yourselfer
My friend and frequent guest blogger Brian McGowan writes: Sorry I haven’t written any posts lately. I am in the middle of several projects around the house now, one of which is a low voltage disconnect and dump load controller …
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A Warm Welcome to Fabio Porcu
We here at 2GreenEnergy welcome our newest intern, Fabio Porcu, a bright young Italian fellow who comes to us fresh from his master’s degree in engineering. During his three-month stay here in Santa Barbara, Fabio will be working with me …
Piezoelectric Devices
I just answered a question on Quora: Why hasn’t a hybrid piezoelectric and a solar energy device entered the market yet? Hybrid piezoelectric and solar device can harvest energy from the sun, rainwater and even wind making it much more …
Life's Full of Surprises at the National Clean Energy Summit
I had lunch at the National Clean Energy Summit yesterday with Karl Reiber, PhD (pictured), a cardiovascular physiologist, the focus of whose work is aquatic animals and how they are affected by the changes that are happening to their environment. …
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Queueing It Up for Tomorrow: National Clean Energy Summit
It’s Sunday night here, but I’ve scheduled this post to be published at 2:45 tomorrow morning, the time at which I’ll get up, dress hurriedly, drive down to Los Angeles, and fly to Las Vegas for the 8th annual National Clean …
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GeoEngineering the Oceans
I’m part of a discussion group that is largely composed of scientists whose main concern is the vast damage that our society continues to wreak upon the environment. One of the benefits I derive from this is the ability to …
