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When I was a marketing consultant to the Fortune-sized IT and industrial giants, I was proud to count Switzerland-based ABB on my client list. Having said that, the company was founded in the 19th Century, and had a reputation as a stodgy, …

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“There is no energy crisis, just a crisis of ignorance,” the great Buckminster Fuller once wrote.  I’ve been Googling this, learning more about it, and challenging myself to figure out what it truly means in our world today.  Check out …

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I like to post articles on Renewable Energy World, as they have pretty decent traffic among people interested in a wide range of clean energy topics.  Today, I commented on Stephen Lacey’s piece Is the Transmission ‘Problem’ Real? in which I …

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I figured that my posts on Renewable Energy World on liquid ammonia would eventually get some response. I had been wondered how it could be possible that so few people were working on projects in this area, as it really …

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Earlier this week I wrote a post expressing my disgust over the US Supreme Court’s announcement that it had found major provisions of campaign finance reform to be unconstitutional.  This paved the way for corporate and union money to mute …

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At the risk of stating the obvious, the subject of renewable energy is so much sexier than energy efficiency. I’m always amazed at all the interest on CFL bulbs, energy-efficient appliances – even hybrid electric vehicles. Every joule of energy …

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