One of our core tasks here at 2Greenenergy is bringing expertise to the analysis of high-level issues in renewable energy. A few months ago, the government of Bangladesh contacted us with an extremely open-ended request: come study our resources — …
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Bangladesh Heads Toward Renewable Energy
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Take a COOL Guess – the Fun Quiz on Clean Energy (and Global Warming Remedy). Today’s Topic: The World’s Total Energy Consumption
Question: What is the world’s total energy consumption, in Watts? Answer: Can be found HERE. Relevance: 80% of the Earth’s energy (the total you see on the Answers page) is generated by burning hydrocarbons – a process that’s clearly unsustainable. …
[The Vector] Expected Impact of Energy Provision Extensions: What Next? (Continued)
(Continued from earlier…) To date, 1,179 solar projects with total investments of over $1.3 billion in 42 states have been built with support from this program. In 2009, the U.S. installed about 435 megawatts of solar. That doubled to about 1,000 …
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[The Vector] Expected Impact of Energy Provision Extensions: What Next?
What can the U.S. renewable energy world expect in 2011? As everyone knows, President Obama signed the bill at the end of 2010 extending a number of energy provisions through 2011, including the U.S. Tax Grant Program (TGP) 1603 – …
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[The Vector] Winter Wonderland and Solar Panels
Hot Webinar on Power Transmission
I try to stay up on the more exciting goings on in power transmission because of its obvious relationship to the penetration of clean energy generally. Less than 2% of our current grid-mix in the US is renewables at this …
[The Vector] Green Technology Offered in New College Program
Looking to future career and job training in green technology, a new Associate of Arts degree starts this spring in an area reinventing itself for the future – Toledo. “Green technology is becoming more and more important in our energy-driven society. …
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CleanTech – Training and Education
A big part of the burgeoning cleantech market is education, as millions of people begin to ponder the process of bringing themselves up to speed on the basics of wind turbines, solar panels, EV charging infrastructure, etc. Each week I …
Electric Power Transmission — Technology in Flux
We hear a great deal about partisan bickering in Washington, but according to a webinar I attended this morning on power transmission, the governors of each state on the eastern seaboard of the US from Maine to Virginia are all …
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Take a COOL Guess – the Fun Quiz on Clean Energy (and Global Warming Remedy). Today’s Topic: Wind Turbines
Question: Approximately what percentage of the theoretical maximum amount of energy of the wind, flowing past the familiar three-blade turbines, is extracted and moved into the turbine shaft? Answer: Can be found at http://2greenenergy.com/cool-guess-answers/8732. Relevance: We come across numerous attempts …
