One of our Facebook fans, Elaine Carter, writes precisely two words: “Absolutely relevant” about LifeCube, a business that we support. It’s hard to disagree with you, Elaine. Here’s cutting-edge R&D of on-demand emergency shelter for disaster response. In less than …
Tag: Renewable Energy
Meeting Clean Energy Entrepreneurs on the East Coast
Lining up a trip back east for the week of February 13th that includes Washington DC, Philadelphia, New York, and potentially Boston. Will be conducting interviews for “Renewable Energy – Following the Money,” but also meeting several clean energy entrepreneurs …
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Tagged with: alternative energy, clean energy, clean energy entrepreneurs, green energy, Renewable Energy
Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Nissan/Renault, Has a Lot Riding on Electric Vehicles
At this point, Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Nissan/Renault, has invested $5.6 billion into electric vehicle technology — a big bet, to be sure. But I believe he feels it to be a fairly safe one, as it rests on his …
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Tagged with: alternative energy, Carlos Ghosn, clean energy, Electric Vehicles, EVs, green energy, Nissan/Renault, Renewable Energy
WheelChange: The Future of Transportation
I just got off the phone with Dan Sturges of WheelChange. If there’s a person on this planet who’s done more work to bring along the future of transportation, I sure want to meet him. For more than two decades, …
Why Energy Policy Doesn’t Contemplate the Future
Frequent commenter “Shivrat” writes: Great that solar investment is increasing so rapidly, and agreed that many challenges lie ahead, but would you say that a paradigm shift to renewables is inevitable in the long term? After all, something like 80% …
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Tagged with: alternative energy, clean energy, energy policy, ExxonMobil, green energy, Renewable Energy
Energy and the Food Supply — How and What We Eat
Last night, my daughter and I were studying her vocabulary words for her English final today, and encountered the word “concise,” i.e., “expressing a great deal in a few words.” And speaking of concise, here’s a really neat photographic essay …
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Documentary on Energy and Sustainability
I had a terrific conversation with Scott Peehl just now, a talented young filmmaker who will be helping on the documentary we’ve been discussing. His main point: what makes documentaries “work” is a common point on empathy that the audience …
Shortfall in Electric Vehicle Charging Stations?
A reader points out, “Given this map of electric vehicle charging stations, there is a serious shortfall, given that there will be over 30 models of electric vehicles available in 2013.” I see the point, but I’m not particularly swayed. …
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Gaia Hypothesis: Does Life Foster Conditions To Sustain Itself?
In my recent post, “Advice to Environmental Policy Makers: Limit Further Damage,” I quoted the late George Carlin: “I love these people who talk about ‘saving the Earth.’ Don’t worry about the planet; the planet will be just fine. It’s …
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Wind Energy — Playing a Role in Distributed Generation
When we think of wind energy, we generally think of those multi-megawatt farms in western Texas, the plains states, and California. Conversely, when we think of solar PV, we normally conjure images of “distributed generation” — “DG” for short — …
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