Here’s a concept that I thought readers would find interesting. The air that comes out of ducts in industrial and commercial buildings has a certain amount of kinetic energy that is wasted. Believe it or not, the air that is …
Category: Wind Energy
Wind Energy and Compressed Air Energy Storage Represent Environmentally Friendly Baseload Power
In a discussion of one of our cleantech investment opportunities that happen to implement wind energy with compressed air energy storage, a friend writes, “compressed air as a storage medium is a commodity along with other storage mediums, so the success …
Wind Energy Infographics
I’m very fond of the people at AWEA, the American Wind Energy Association, and I’m also quite keen on well-made infographics that speak to the job growth potential represented by the wind industry, and by renewable energy more generally. For …
Building Out Our Power Grid Means No More Curtailments for Wind Power
There are many reasons (eleven to be precise) that I believe the migration to renewable energy is happening far faster than most people understand. Thus, the name of my current book project: “Bullish on Renewable Energy – Eleven Reasons Why …
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Wind and Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES)
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. …
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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