A friend asked me to evaluate the technology represented here. “Is there something here?” she inquired? “I wish there were. But alas, it’s a fraud,” I responded. “You are soooo in the know!” she gushed. “Ha! You’re too kind. Btw, …
Tag: Renewable Energy
Is “Business As Usual” with Respect to the Natural Environment an Acceptable Strategy?
I’m delighted to see real progress being made in the public discourse surrounding sustainability. While most people still have the idea that continuing with “business as usual” with respect to our environment is an acceptable strategy, more of us are …
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Basics of Renewable Energy
Just a quick note to let you know that our project to assemble audio/visual learning aids aimed at renewable energy is complete (for now, at least), and ready for distribution to any young people or newcomers in the subject you …
Basics of Renewable Energy
Ross Guthrie, one of 2GreenEnergy’s web-programming superstars, has just completed this page that offers a compilation of the Basics of Renewable Energy, the videos and infographics that my team and I have been putting together over the past few months. It looks …
Plug-In Hybrids: Now THAT’S Complexity
Here’s a wonderful video that explains the multiple drivetrains at work in the Chevy Volt. A couple of immediate impressions: 1) No wonder the price on this sucker is $41K, with all that going on. The bill of materials (costs …
Frontline on PBS: Nuclear Aftershocks
I hope everyone gets the opportunity to catch this episode of Frontline on PBS: Nuclear Aftershocks — one that essentially claims that nuclear energy is both unacceptably dangerous but completely necessary. I’m reminded of the way Amory Lovins begins his current-day presentations: …
The Strengths and Weaknesses of Hydrokinetics
Here’s a continuation in our series of videos made for young people and newcomers to the subject who may benefit from an introduction to certain of the renewable energy technologies. This piece, less than five minutes in length, is a …
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Is Renewable Energy Growing Stronger? It Depends on How You Look At It
EVWorld has a wonderfully encouraging article on renewables that begins: Pop quiz time. The fastest growing energy sector in terms of percentage of growth in the United States between January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2011 was: A) natural gas, B) …
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Video: Unique Approach To Hydrokinetics
Here’s a video in which I speak to a unique approach and capability to hydrokinetics that applies in particular to large, predictable ocean currents like the Gulf Stream and the Mozambique Current off the coast of Eastern Africa. As I …
Island Nations Are a Good Fit for Renewable Energy
Don Harmon of LiFeBatt, a long-time 2GreenEnergy reader, writes in about my recent video on clean energy: Good interview. We are currently working on a project in the Caribbean Islands for solar and wind generation. The islands are a very …
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