In a discussion of one of our cleantech investment opportunities that happen to implement wind energy with compressed air energy storage, a friend writes, “compressed air as a storage medium is a commodity along with other storage mediums, so the success …
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From Guest Blogger Jessica Max: Green Energy – The Future Energy Solution
Everywhere you look, it seems, terms green energy and renewable energy all the rage. There can be little doubt that our climate is changing and that we as humans need to do something if we can. But what exactly is …
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Will An Energy Policy Based on Natural Gas Fracking Be Effective in Stemming Climate Disruption?
Here’s a very solid article from Bill McKibben summing up the current approach to energy in the U.S. which, summarizing even further is as follows: a little wind, a little solar, but an enormous effort to substitute natural gas, harvested …
Tagged with: Bill McKibben, causing climate disruption, gas leaks, natural gas fracking, solar energy, Wind Energy
Advocates of Various Forms of Low-Carbon Energy Should Not Fight One Another
The advocacy group for molten sale thorium reactors I came across recently is composed of some really smart people who understand the mechanisms behind climate disruption very well. But astonishingly, many members of the group see solar and wind as …
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Las Vegas Is Home To Huge Conventions on Renewable Energy – And Essentially Everything Else
Sorry if this comes across as out-of-touch, but I’ve never had any particular love affair with Las Vegas. When I was consulting to IBM and one of its joint ventures in the late 1990s, my team and I spent three …
Offshore Wind in the North Sea – By 2GreenEnergy Intern Olivier Goavec
Here’s another article by our terrific French intern, Olivier Goavec, pictured here with his vélo. In its goal to meet its objectives in terms of gas emission and to become less dependent on energy importations (coal, gas, oil), Europe needs …
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Wind Energy and Concentrated Solar Power (CSP)
A reader asks for my viewpoint on wind energy and concentrated solar power (CSP). She writes: Hello! I have been doing a lot of research on CSP and wind power. I want to know your opinion on which is better …
From Guest Blogger Conor MacGuire: A Beginner’s Guide to Renewable Energy
A beginner can get bamboozled by the amount of data available on renewable energy technologies. Renewables basically utilize energy sources that will never run out. They are mostly derived from the sun either indirectly or directly. Keep reading to find out more.
Breakthrough Concepts in Clean Energy
As I’ve mentioned, I receive several new clean energy business concepts per week, mostly rooted in proven technology. The scientific mechanisms behind solar, wind, biomass, hydrokinetics and geothermal are all very well-established, and have been for a great period of …
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Hydrokinetics and Wind Energy Technologies
I just got off the phone with a fellow trying to raise investment capital for these guys. I bring this up not to ridicule anyone, but to make a point about the energy industry. The main technology featured here is …
