In preparation for my first book, Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies, I interviewed Dr. V. Ramanathan at the Scripps Institute in San Diego. “Ram (pronounced “Rahm”), as he’s affectionately known, had been working on the science behind climate change since the …
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We haven’t heard too much about geothermal recently. When I was writing Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies almost 10 years ago, the interview I conducted with the leader in this space, Reno, NV-based Ormat Technologies left me with a sense of …
France, where bicycling represents about 3% of all trips taken, wants to be more like The Netherlands, where that figure is 30%. So what’s the plan? It’s all nicely explained in this video linked here.
When I wrote Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies in 2010, solar thermal (aka concentrated solar power or CSP) was a big deal, largely because of the way it readily lent itself to solving the intermittency issue via energy storage as heat, …
As the basis for the chapter on the use of litigation to protect our natural resources in my first book (Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies), I was lucky enough to interview Johanna Wald at the NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) shortly …
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A reader mentions a series of meetings he attended on technologies that can be applied to coal plants to clear up their emissions, and, in reference to one of them, notes: This is just one of many potential “cleaner fossil …
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Though he was only a couple of years out of college when I was introduced to Stephen Lacey (pictured) in 2009, he had already become a senior staff writer at the prestigious website RenewableEnergyWorld.com, and had learned essentially everything there …
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Gary Tulie, who made huge contributions to Bullish on Renewable Energy, points out, “One of the technologies discussed was Spallation Drilling (pictured) – a technique for speeding up drilling through hard rock for use in geothermal projects. The use of …
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It was a true delight to interview R. James Woolsey, Jr. for the “national security” chapter in my first book, Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies. Here’s a highly principled fellow who has served under four U.S. presidents in this arena, culminating …
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I have a great deal of respect and admiration for Jigar Shah, the founder of SunEdison, author of Creating Climate Wealth, and former CEO of Carbon War Room, the global organization founded by Richard Branson and Virgin United. And apparently, he …
