When I decided to learn about the energy industry and the imperative to migrate away from fossil fuels a few years ago, a number of my friends urged me to conduct an independent and objective analysis on global warming. But …
Category: Renewables – Science
Renewable Energy: How Do We Get There? June’s Free Webinar
What do you believe to be the most difficult hurdles we face in the migration to renewable energy? If you live in the US, you find yourself in a land that is choking itself, driving itself toward bankruptcy, endangering its …
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What Does Civilization’s Future Look Like, Given the Rise in Population and the Decline in Traditional Energy Resources?
I want to thank everyone who helped with this month’s survey, in which participants were asked to provide their forecasts for the future of our civilization, given the rise in population and the decline in traditional energy resources. I’ll publish …
June’s Survey on Clean Energy
I hope I can count on you to participate in June’s poll, which centers around the following: Given the world’s rapid growth in both population and fossil fuel resource consumption, how optimistic are you for a sustainable future? And why? …
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[The Vector] NREL: Consumer Attitudes About Renewable Energy: Trends and Regional Differences
In April 2011 report, a new report was released by NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory). It takes a look at American awareness, attitudes, knowledge and usage of renewable energy and the study further breaks down these views regionally. Some surprising …
The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-first Century
I have put “The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-first Century” on my summer reading list, as I want to learn more about the quest to provide the world with an adequate supply of fresh drinking …
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Ocean Acidification
Global climate change deniers wishing to argue their position often point out the oceans, enormous as they are, act as huge “carbon dioxide sinks.” It is true, of course, that the oceans absorb about 30% of the atmospheric CO2 we …
2GreenEnergy: Clean Energy Webinars
Today’s clean energy webinar with Dr. David Doty went very well. David spoke on “The World Energy Scene by the Year 2050,” presented his solution (“WindFuels,” synthetic fuels made from off-peak wind energy and CO2), and fielded a number of …
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This Year’s Clean Business Investment Summit
I’ll be headed into downtown Santa Barbara tomorrow to continue my participation in a series of meetings leading up to this year’s Clean Business Investment Summit. Here, this August 12th, socially responsible entrepreneurs with emerging-growth clean business start-ups and later-stage …
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Michio Kaku’s “Physics of the Impossible” and Its Implications to the Clean Energy Field
I just finished Michio Kaku’s 2008 book Physics of the Impossible, which left me with a renewed admiration and respect for this great mind and true master-communicator of popular science. So warm and inviting is the language and its presentation that …
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