“The way to have good ideas is to have lots of ideas,” two-time Nobel prize laureate Linus Pauling said modestly. That’s something to think about, isn’t it? Don’t stress out about the quality of your ideas – at least initially. …
Tag: clean energy
Ian McEwan’s “Solar” Tackles Global Climate Change and Renewable Energy
I got through the first half of Ian McEwan’s masterpiece “Solar” on the plane ride home from the East Coast this afternoon. For my money, he’s one of the top two or three living authors of fiction – and here, of …
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Environmental Extremists Block Solar and Wind Energy Projects to Protect Rare Animal Species
My new friend the lawyer writes in: I appreciate what you are doing. Somebody got me a subscription to Audubon magazine recently…maybe they are telling me I’m a birdbrain! I read a story in there yesterday which cheered the fact …
More on Lawyers’ Roles in the Migration to Clean Energy
God only knows how many attorneys I insulted with my recent piece on the legal system. I’m pleased to note that one of them wrote me a very civil and insightful response:
Want to Use More Renewable Energy? See This Month’s Webinar
I hope you can make this month’s webinar, in which we’ll be covering a terrific new idea that could make a real difference in the integration of renewables onto the grid-mix. Electrons, of course, have no color, nor do they …
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Concentrated Solar Power — Hot Clean Energy Plan
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23ZbWSSBoIE] Here’s a few minutes of video on a business plan I really love. It’s a breakthrough in concentrated solar power, or CSP, aka solar thermal energy, made by a guy I’ve met and come to know and trust. …
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Are Electric Vehicles Really “Green?” — Another Viewpoint
I had the pleasure of meeting Michael Pesin of the local power utility up here in Northwestern Washington State: Seattle City Light, at the launch of my client EV4’s new product, the “Energy Transfer Merchant.” I thought this conversation was …
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Please Help: Suggest a Title for My New Book on Clean Energy
May I ask you a favor? I was in the process of editing the transcripts of the interviews I’ve conducted for my next book on renewable energy, when I realized: I don’t have a title that I really like. I …
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Thermodynamics Important in Understanding Key Clean Energy Technologies
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 …
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Gigawatt Solar Project Switches from CSP to PV
I was disappointed to learn that the gigawatt solar project in Blythe, CA decided to switch from CSP to PV. The issue, at least on the surface, is “bankability,” i.e., maturity of the technology, along with the obvious fact that …
