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 …
Thermodynamics Important in Understanding Key Clean Energy Technologies Read More »
[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 »
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 …
“Renewable Energy — Facts and Fantasies” on the Outdoor Talk Network Read More »
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 …
Tom Blakeslee on Futuristic Clean Energy Technologies Read More »
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 …
Here’s another in a series of free reports, based on the input of over 300 participants to our June 2011 survey. The subject matter: Will population growth and energy resource depletion have dire consequences over the coming years?
I have three meetings tomorrow, starting with a book interview about 140 miles from here with my old friend Wally Rippel. Wally’s been following the controversy on cold fusion pretty much since its inception 20+ years ago, and there is …
Discussion on Cold Fusion Starts the Day Pretty Early Read More »
Here’s a short animated video aptly called “The Price of Gas” that takes the viewer through the comprehensive costs to the environment of exploration, extraction, shipping, refinement of crude, and the distribution and consumption of gasoline. Very nicely done, IMHO. …
“The Price of Gas” Explores the True Costs of Our Oil Addiction Read More »
Dan Nocera at MIT is amazing, in my opinion. I have written about him before: Dr. Nocera is a chemist and Dreyfus Professor of Energy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) also runs the SunCatalytix company. He has been working …
[The Vector] Solving the World’s Energy Problem, with a Little Water? Read More »
