It looks like I’ll be taking on some marketing responsibilities for my client WindStream, a start-up with a fabulous breakthrough in “microwind,” i.e., small, inexpensive, easily installed wind turbines. I certainly won’t be able to publish every aspect of the …
WindStream, Cost-Effective Breakthrough in MicroWind, Targets Schools Read More »
EPRI, the Electric Power Resource Institute, is a non-profit organization that functions to perform research and provide assistance in the development of advanced systems in generation, delivery and use of electricity. I’m sure there was a time a few decades …
Here’s a terrific piece by Renewable Energy World’s Jennifer Runyon explaining the need for and status of changes in the way that clean energy projects are financed. As it turns out, master limited partnerships (MLPs) and real estate investment trusts …
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2GreenEnergy supporter Don Harmon of LiFeBATT, Inc. just sent me this article about the piece that came out of the University of Delaware recently, presenting the possibility of a complete migration to renewable energy by 2030. The discussion that follows is interesting, …
Here’s an article that points to a further reduction in the cost of wind energy, based on collaboration between General Electric, Virginia Tech and the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory that could fundamentally change how wind blades are designed, manufactured …
Last Thursday afternoon I had the pleasure of attending a presentation by an organization called Liberty and Justice, a start-up company that manufactures men’s apparel in Liberia and Ghana for import into the U.S., under brands like Haggar. The focus …
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Here’s a consumer-oriented piece from the U.S. Department of Energy: 10 Things You Didn’t Know about Electric Vehicles. Nicely done. There are a couple of issues with EVs, however, that make this a trickier issue than the article implies: • Even …
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Here’s a well-written article that contains a great deal of truth. Many environmentalists take knee-jerk positions, often rooted in an incomplete and self-serving view of the relevant science, and these positions can ultimately do more harm to the environment than …
Australia has terrific solar and wind resources, and, if this report is to be believed, expects to exploit them to the max over the coming years. One has to like the title: “The Critical Decade: Generating a Renewable Australia,” as …
When you open a can of soda or beer, do you like to bend the tab back and forth until it breaks off in your fingers? That phenomenon, fatigue, plays a big factor in the design and maintenance of wind …
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