As the power utilities fight for their lives, given the defection of customers due to rooftop solar, they look to electric vehicles to replace all that load. Besides electricity generation itself, transportation is the biggest energy consumer in the U.S., …
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Power Utilities of Tomorrow: It’s Complicated
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Dealing with the Externalities of Our Major Industries
A reader commented on my post In Choosing Among Various Approaches to Energy, Politics Is a Very Big Deal that I support political action involving an ideological/moral campaign to prevent the eating of red meat. I suppose that would be a decent …
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Coal Water Slurry Fuel
A reader asked my opinion of Coal Water Slurry Fuel (CWSF) as an alternative to conventional coal power generation and the greatly reduced or limited emissions. I responded that I actually don’t know much about it. From a quick read …
Electric Transportation and the Environment
As part of an ongoing conversation on the environmental validity of electric vehicles, frequent commenter Glenn Doty writes: … Every minute of usage from an EV bought or sold this year (or the next two or three decades for that matter), …
Infographic on Electric Transportation
Here’s an infographic from the Union of Concerned Scientists on electric transportation, whose point is that, where only 1% of the cars on roads currently are EVS, 42% “could be” – meaning that their drivers meet all the criteria: dedicated …
Hydrokinetics and Wind Energy Technologies
I just got off the phone with a fellow trying to raise investment capital for these guys. I bring this up not to ridicule anyone, but to make a point about the energy industry. The main technology featured here is …
America Really Likes Electric Vehicles
It looks like this transition to electric transportation is taking root in the U.S. August was the first month that sales topped 10,000 units. I’ve always said that this transition has the potential to happen very quickly, once word-of-mouth sets …
From a Guest Blogger: Solar Power in Queensland Gets the Thumbs up from Global Change Institute
Queensland is known as the Sunshine State, so it only make sense that it’s paving the way when it comes to innovations in solar power. Queensland’s latest contribution to solar energy and solar power is the recently opened Global Change …
From Guest Blogger Alia: Integration of Irregular Green Energy Sources
The growing concern for environment and greenhouse gases from the number of conventional energy production options has put forth the need to find a competent alternative. Fortunately you have a number of renewable or green energy sources, which can easily …
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Solar PV and Battery Back-Up — An Oddity
A reader asked me to comment on the article linked below, but frankly, I simply don’t understand it. If this is to be believed, a power utility (Southern California Edison) denied a homeowner’s application to connect his solar PV array …
