Category: Renewables – Science

I got through the first half of Ian McEwan’s masterpiece “Solar” on the plane ride home from the East Coast this afternoon.  For my money, he’s one of the top two or three living authors of fiction – and here, of …

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I’m back in Washington D.C. today, principally to attend a small conference. Nate Hagens, authority on global resource depletion, has invited me to listen to his presentation on the subject, aimed at NGOs. Nate has granted me an interview for …

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A reader asks: Hi, I did a quick search on your website for zero point energy and didn’t find anything. I’ve been hearing some seemingly unrealistic claims. Have you had any exposure to this technology / pseudo-technology? …. to which …

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I hope you can make this month’s webinar, in which we’ll be covering a terrific new idea that could make a real difference in the integration of renewables onto the grid-mix. Electrons, of course, have no color, nor do they …

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I’m trying to come fully up to speed on a few of the areas of chemistry and physics that are most germane to renewable energy and electric transportation. Though I studied all this stuff at a certain level when I …

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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzR55f67UKg&w=420&h=345] Here’s a one-hour radio show (minus commercials) I did the other day called The Outdoor Talk Network, with host Jim Slinsky. 53 stations in 24 states pick it up each week. Jim is a deer hunter, and played …

Craig Shields Talks Clean Energy on the Outdoor Talk Network Read More »

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Each week, I get several very kind and sincere requests to interview me — normally on a radio show — regarding my last book.   In fact, I just got off an hour-long interview with Jim Slinsky, who has been …

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Tom Blakeslee is a 2GreenEnergy friend, a widely-published author, a philanthropist, and a really smart guy.  He also plays a mean game of paddle tennis, as I learned first-hand, when I met him at his home in Southern California.   Tom …

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I’m happy to report that Orion Walker, a professor at Mendocino College in Northern California, has decided to include “Renewable Energy — Facts and Fantasies” as part of the required reading for his course “Introduction to Cleantech” this fall.  I …

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For those trying to make sense of the concept of “peak oil,” i.e., the point at which the world capacity to extract oil from the Earth will have peaked, I’ve linked what I believe to be a good article. Virtually …

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