One of our cleantech investors here at 2GreenEnergy has expressed a great deal of interest in playing a key role in our wind energy project that will implement CAES. When I heard that news earlier this morning, I responded: Good. …
Category: Wind Energy
ABB Takes on Tough Challenges Posed by Offshore Wind
Offshore wind presents many thorny challenges, the solutions of which, if they are to exist at all, require our very best engineering minds. Some of these are related to securing the turbines. Fortunately, there are oceans, like the Atlantic off …
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More on Wind Energy vs. Coal-Fired Power Plants
A reader, who happens to be an old friend from my days as a marketing consultant, writes: One of the most useful seminars I ever attended was about rules for introducing a new technology that replaces currently accepted technology. The …
Wind Energy Vs. Coal-Fired Power Plants
A reader notes: If I were advising clean energy lobbies, I’d tell them to ignore coal discussions, and just kick butt in the marketplace. As it is now however, Obama’s statements about putting coal out of business just sets up …
Tipping Point for Wind Energy
It seems like only yesterday that I wrote this piece in which I pointed out that Fox News was deliberately misleading its viewers with respect to clean energy. “Yes, renewables are more expensive than coal,” I admitted, “But that’s hardly …
Koch Brothers Hard At Work In Their Mission to Kill Wind Energy
I thought I’d get a quick start on my new book and knock out a few interviews by phone. To that end, I had a call scheduled with a colleague in Kansas, a senior player in the wind energy industry. …
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WindStream – Unique Approach to Microwind
My colleague Dan Bates is CEO of publicly traded WindStream, one of the few players in microwind that offers its customers a reasonable value proposition in terms of payback period. Here’s a really well-made video that speaks to their new …
2GreenEnergy Intern Louis de Saint Phalle Writes on Offshore Wind
Linked here is another in a series of posts from 2GreenEnergy intern Louis de Saint Phalle, this one on offshore wind energy. As you read through it, I’d encourage you to write a comment or two, challenging Louis (who’s fluent …
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From 2GreenEnergy Intern Louis de Saint Phalle: Offshore Wind Overview
Offshore wind is a great method to harness energy in an environmental friendly and sustainable way. Rather than building wind farms on land, massive wind turbines are constructed in bodies of water to generate electricity. This resolves the “Not in …
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Las Vegas Is Home To Huge Conventions on Renewable Energy – And Essentially Everything Else
Sorry if this comes across as out-of-touch, but I’ve never had any particular love affair with Las Vegas. When I was consulting to IBM and one of its joint ventures in the late 1990s, my team and I spent three …
