A friend of mine sent me an invitation to a webinar called the “Roadmap to a Hydrogen Economy and Review of Alternative Energy Technologies.” I hope he doesn’t regard my response as indelicate or ungracious: Thanks! I’ll try to check …
Category: Renewables – Science
How Much Renewable Energy Does the World Really Need?
Here’s an article whose author is attempting to show that the goal of 100% renewables is closer than we think. At the risk of stating the obvious, I jotted down a few notes I wish to share: • We’re a very …
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Clean Energy Technologies Could Come from Unexpected Places
According to the Writer’s Almanac on Monday: It was on this day in 1754 that the word “serendipity” was first coined. It’s defined by Merriam-Webster as “the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for.” …. The …
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Tagged with: Martin Perl, Nobel Prize in physics, SLAC, Stanford Linear Accelerator, Writer's Almanac
Geo-engineering — The Grand-Daddy of All Decisions
By no means am I able to keep up on every idea within the realm of geo-engineering, i.e., taking active steps at a planetary level to counteract global warming. Here’s one that we hear about often, that apparently isn’t practical: “fertilizing” the …
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International Renewable Energy Agency Offers Atlas Charting the World’s Renewable Assets
There are numerous international projects aimed at facilitating the replacement of fossil fuels with renewable energy, of which one of the most prominent is the International Renewable Energy Agency, or IRENA. Here’s their “global atlas,” a solid and ever-improving tool …
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Celebrating Isaac Newton's Birthday
In this age of ours, where we’re all rightfully fascinated with the paradigm shifts that are occurring far more frequently than they did in antiquity, perhaps it’s not a bad time to celebrate the birthday (yesterday) of Isaac Newton. According …
Migration to Renewable Energy
2GreenEnergy supporter Don Harmon of LiFeBATT, Inc. just sent me this article about the piece that came out of the University of Delaware recently, presenting the possibility of a complete migration to renewable energy by 2030. The discussion that follows is interesting, …
Good News in Renewable Energy
Here’s an article that points to a further reduction in the cost of wind energy, based on collaboration between General Electric, Virginia Tech and the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory that could fundamentally change how wind blades are designed, manufactured …
List of ARPA-E Grants for Cleantech R&D
I received a few emails this morning alerting me to the U.S. Department of Energy’s release of the list of grants it made recently for cleantech R&D out of its “Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy” (ARPA-E). It would be …
Renewable Energy Technology Improving Performance, Reducing Costs
Here’s some good news in the photovoltaics world: the first about a new record in solar efficiency and the second about a super-absorbent solar cell. I’m reminded of a conversation I have frequently with clean energy nay-sayers. As renewable energy …
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