A friend just sent me this piece on ocean acidification and asks: “The tipping point has tipped?” I respond: Could be. In truth, no one knows. I’ve been writing about this for years. In fact, when I’m on a radio …
Category: Renewables – Science
Micro-wind, the Water-Energy Nexus, and High-efficiency Electric Motors
Yesterday started with a drive south to visit my friend, WindStream CEO Dan Bates. WindStream is one of the very few micro-wind products that I favor, in that it appears that they have come across one of the very few …
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From Guest Blogger Jessica Greenberg: Hydraulic Fracking Poses Water Pollution Hazards; Earthquakes also a Possibility
The issues regarding hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” are considerably growing as risk analysts have issued their concerns regarding the contaminated waste water coming from hydraulic fracking wells have a great potential of polluting rivers and other sources of water within …
How Much Energy Does the Earth Receive From the Sun?
Here’s an email conversation I just had with a friend: Friend: Per the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, sunlight is the most abundant source of potential energy on the planet. If harnessed properly, sunlight could easily exceed current and future …
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Gertrude Stein: We Are Always the Same Age Inside
I had a fairly heated disagreement on a few scientific points with a much younger man the other day that resulted in his later challenging me to search online for what he claimed to be the truth. “UTUBE IT, GRAMPS,” …
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Piezoelectric Generation in Roadways
Regarding my response on piezoelectric generation in roadways, Nick writes: I had no idea they produced such a small amount of energy though I did realize they were expensive. Well, I haven’t done the math, but just following the broad …
Piezoelectric Generators
Nicholas writes: I just wanted to put the idea forward of piezoelectric generators. As I read an article on them a little while ago about some Israeli engineers testing them on a stretch of highway. They spoke about storing some …
This Morning's Radio Show: Clean Energy's Good and Bad Ideas
I was a guest on a radio program this morning on socially responsible investing (SRI), hosted by a very amiable local woman, Robin Eschler. The discussion was quite positive and uplifting overall. How could it have been otherwise? Robin is delightful, …
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"Theoretically Impossible" Is Only One Class of Bad Ideas in Clean Energy
A young man from India writes in response to my recent piece in which I talk about two classes of bad ideas in clean energy — those that are theoretically impossible and those that are possible but seem to hold …
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Microbial Fuel Cells
A reader asks if microbial fuel cells fall into the category of “bad ideas” for clean energy that I mentioned in my post yesterday. He cites: Major Advance Made in Generating Electricity from Waste Water, Teaching A Microbe To Make …
