I’m planning to make yet another addition to my list of renewable energy investment opportunities: the development of a smallish wind farm in Sardinia. Apparently, power from wind turbines that are rated under 60 KW is greeted with a huge …
Category: Wind Energy
The Man Who Photographs Wind Turbines
I was milling around Wall-Space, a hip new art gallery in Santa Barbara’s “Funk Zone” yesterday, looking at some really cool photography, when the clerk, an amazingly articulate and self-possessed young lady, asked me about my interests. No sooner had …
Tagged with: wind turbines
Real-time Wind Resources
Here’s a fun little tool – a real-time wind chart for the continental U.S. To me, it validates a couple of ideas that I hear often: • When the wind isn’t blowing at point A, the chances are much more …
The Wind Energy Industry Is Still Bedeviled with Danger to Birds and Bats
A friend in the wind industry sent me this interesting article on wind turbines, blades, birds, and subsidies. I know the industry is taking the situation with birds and bats very seriously, and that’s good; they certainly need to do …
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Can Wave Energy Be Cost-Effective? I Doubt It.
As always, I’m willing to be wrong. But I believe that wave energy, i.e., that which is derived from the wind that blows over the ocean and creates the relatively small bit of kinetic energy that becomes the ups and …
The Wind Energy Industry and Deutsche Bank’s Three Pillars of a Successful Market
When a speaker at yesterday’s CleanTechLA event presented what Deutsche Bank calls its “three pillars of a successful market,” I could see some of the main challenges associated with the migration to renewable energy. Abbreviated “TLC” (something that everyone and …
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Going Green With Tiffany
I attended a terrific event on raising capital for cleantech ventures the other night, and had the good fortune to become acquainted with Tiffany Paige of “GreenWithTiffany.” What a fabulous human being. I love her rant on Styrofoam: “nothing we …
GE's 500th Wind Turbine in Brazil
Why is the stock market doing so well when prospects for economic strength in the U.S. are so scary? It’s because the market – or even the set of large companies that happen to be headed here in the U.S. …
Trip for Kickoff Meeting with Xzeres in Microwind Is Both Rewarding and Exhausting
Have you ever reached the end of a long day, thought back to breakfast, and said to yourself, “Man. That seems like last week?” Today’s up and back jaunt to Portland (Oregon, US) with new 2GreenEnergy client Xzeres (microwind) was …
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Generating Demand for Microwind
I’m excited to have been hired by Xzeres Corp. (microwind) to help out with some marketing actions. I propose to start by compiling a few case studies, documenting on camera the success of residential customers and those in different industries …
