Of the many dozens of articles I’ve written on hydrokinetics over the past four years since the inception of 2GreenEnergy, I’ve expressed a whole bunch of skepticism. Fans of run-of-river need to contend with the fact that, as least as …
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Energy Storage, The Power Grid, and Solar Energy
Regarding the suggestion for a huge international effort to develop solar energy, Deon Deetlefs writes on the 2GreenEnergy Facebook page: Always good to see, but when are we going to place more emphasis on the storage of power rather than the …
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New Compressed Air Energy Storage Plant Coming to California
It appears that planet Earth is on its way to its third implementation of CAES (compressed air energy storage) – one of a handful of different technologies that warehouses off-peak energy production and makes it available for times of greater …
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Tagged with: advanced rail, biomass, CAES, compressed air energy storage, Doty Windfuels, flavors of renewables, flywheels, geothermal, grid mix, Hydrokinetics, off-peak energy production, pumped hydro, solar, solar energy, synthetic gasoline and diesel, Thermodynamics, utility-scale installations of PV and solar thermal, variable energy resources, wind, Wind Energy
Clean Energy Investment Opportunities Becoming More Attractive By the Day
This article on fracking reminded me that I haven’t written too much on the subject. For the record, my position is that fracking carries with it serious ecological consequences that we’re sweeping under the rug, and that natural gas does …
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Tagged with: biomass, cheap fossil fuels, Citigroup, clean energy flavors, clean energy investment opportunities, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, fracking, fracking ecological consequences, geothermal, Hydrokinetics, natural gas transition fuel, oil and gas companies, pro-fracking public radio, Renewable Energy, solar energy, transition to clean energy, Wind Energy
Engineering-related Internship at 2GreenEnergy
I just had a conversation with a college engineering student looking to do an internship at 2GreenEnergy. I sure hope this works out, as it’s a terrific “win-win-win,” as I like to call it: a) 2GreenEnergy gets more high-quality content, …
Tagged with: advanced battery chemistries, advanced rail, biofuels, biomass, energy storage, flavors of renewable energy, geothermal energy, Hydrokinetics, internship at 2GreenEnergy, national laboratories, NREL, ocean current energy, OTEC, photovoltaics, pumped hydro, re-positioning as “energy companies”, run-of-river hydro, Solar Thermal, Tidal Energy, Wind Energy, world’s largest oil companies
Addressing the World's Energy Needs — Especially Those That Are Most Pressing
Here’s an article that wrestles with the confusion surrounding the idea that the entire world’s energy demand could be supplied with PV on 1% of the Earth’s surface. (By my quick calcs, btw, this is true. 1% of the surface …
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Tagged with: bringing renewable energy to the third world, burning animal dung, coal, damage to the biosphere, electricity, entire world’s energy demand, Hydrokinetics, natural gas, nuclear power, oil, PV on 1% of the Earth’s surface, solar energy, three billion people cook by burning biomass, Wind Energy
Artificial Economic Supports for Wind Energy Are Inherently Flawed
These articles on India’s “generation-based incentive” and the “production tax credit” here in the U.S. call to mind a sad fact: government incentives that are designed to produce more wind energy are deeply flawed. First, turning these incentives on and …
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Tagged with: Adam Smith's invisible hand, artificial supports, base-load energy, biomass, capital formation wind industry, coal-fired power plants, dispatchable energy, generation-based incentive, geothermal, government incentive for wind energy, Hydrokinetics, nuclear energy, nuclear reactors, peak energy, production tax credit, solar energy, Wind Energy
There Is "No Free Lunch” in Renewable Energy, But It's a Cheap Date Considering the Alternatives
Here’s a good discussion of what I call the “no free lunch” theory of renewable energy: everything we do, whether it’s solar, wind, hydrokinetics, etc., comes with a non-negligible ecological cost. The issue, obviously, is objectively identifying all costs – …
New Concept in Hydrokinetics
I had a terrific meeting this morning with one of my “Craig Shields – At Your Service” clients on the East Coast, this one involving a new concept in hydrokinetics. It’s always cool to be paid, albeit modestly, to review …
Sustainability Conference – The Financial Implications of Going Green
I write this from the beautiful campus of UCLA, specifically, the Anderson School of Management, where I’m a few minutes early for a conference called: Sustainability Conference – The Financial Implications of Going Green. After all, this really IS the …
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