Category: Renewables – Science

In response to my recent post: Can Renewable Energy Scale Up To Power the Entire Planet?, a reader notes: Looking at how many countries around the world are getting involved in renewable energy. I would say that it’s possible. I …

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Here’s a further piece of the conversation that began when a young lady introduced me to an idea for converting compressed air into energy that her boss, the company’s CEO, had invented.  At issue, of course, is: “Where does the energy …

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Here’s a good example of what I go through in my pursuit of good ideas in renewable energy; it’s the dialog I had with the people I wrote about here. Cogar Energy Rep:  We appreciate your interest in helping to …

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About 25 years ago I came across a professional “futurist,” i.e., a gentleman whose career is based on predicting the future based on the present.  (Actually, I presume that his work is based on the present, though I’m not sure …

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Here’s a website that describes a machine that produces more energy than it consumes.  Really?  Of course not.  Yet that’s what its investors told me on the conference call just now. Unsurprisingly, they’re trying to raise investment capital.  I asked …

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There are many aspects of the green energy revolution that cause me concern, a major one of which is the prevalence of fraud, i.e., raising investment capital for the development of technologies that couldn’t possibly work. Now I’m sure there …

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I often mention all the clean energy products I come across on a daily basis, and how some of them are fraudulent.  Here’s a typical company/concept that makes my point: AI Power. I just got off the phone with the …

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A reader responds to my piece “What Will Become of Most Renewable Energy Concepts?” as follows: I sell energy every day and I would say watch more closely those you scoff at, as once the tax incentives go away so will …

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I was just telling my daughter’s best friend (pictured here facing my camera, perhaps seven years ago) about Linus Pauling, how remarkable he was, and what we can all learn from his incredible life. One important lesson is that we …

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Those of you who understand the basic chemistry of ocean acidification know that the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is absorbed into the seas, momentarily creating carbonic acid, which almost immediately breaks apart into products that includes a hydrogen …

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