We here at 2GreenEnergy welcome our newest intern, Fabio Porcu, a bright young Italian fellow who comes to us fresh from his master’s degree in engineering. During his three-month stay here in Santa Barbara, Fabio will be working with me …
Tag: renewable energy technologies
Associated Press Report on Concentrated Solar Power Plant Includes Grossly Inflated Avian Mortality Numbers
Here’s a fairly noncontroversial statement: Those who publish alarming reports on unintended environmental consequences of cutting-edge renewable energy technologies have a responsibility to ensure their numbers are correct. Yet astonishingly, every major newspaper in the U.S. published the Associated Press’s …
Telling the OTEC Story
One of the highlights of my trip back east this week will be a visit to my client OTECorporation, a company with a huge head-start in ocean thermal energy conversion. “OTEC,” as it’s normally abbreviated, is one of the renewable …
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The Basic Renewable Energy Technologies
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgKgc_Oo1fI]As part of my series of basic videos for newcomers on the main renewable energy technologies, I lay out the basic forms of clean energy and say a few words about photovoltaics, solar thermal (aka concentrated solar power or …
