I wrote this post yesterday, when I was a few minutes early for the start of an event at the downtown Los Angeles office of the Nature Conservancy. I had come into the city for four separate meetings, of which…
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From Guest Blogger Jove Arthur: Top 3 Tips for Making Your House Water Efficient
One of the most common ways to create an energy efficient house is by sealing it so that air can neither come in or out. This way, heaters or air conditioner won’t work as hard to either warm or cool…
Tagged with: efficiency, faucet aerators, insulating water pipes, water heaters
Posted in Efficiency
Posted in Efficiency
Book Launch: "Is Renewable Really Doable?"
It’s time to launch my second book, Is Renewable Really Doable? on Amazon.com. The big day: March 15, 2012. I hope you will mark your calendar, and buy the book on that date. To help generate interest in the subject,…
Tagged with: Amazon.com, book launch, carbon taxes, Climate Change, conservation, consumer incentives, credit crunch, efficiency, end of cheap oil, energy storage, externalities, feed-in tariffs, food and water shortages, governments accelerate and retard clean energy, health hazards, Insights in LCOE – The Levelized Cost of Energy, Is Renewable Really Doable, land use, March 15 2012, Mike Hess, oil subsidies, scientific community unbiased, smart grid, the safety of fracking, transmission rights, venture capitalists clean energy
Posted in Renewables - Business
Posted in Renewables - Business
From Guest Blogger John Robbins: Energy Use – Create Personal Standards and Expectations
People need direct and clear instructions, like road signs or charts in a doctors office. A speed limit sign doesn’t say “Slow speed by 20%” when entering a school zone. It says “Do not exceed 20 mph”. If a doctor…
Tagged with: alternative energy, clean energy, efficiency, energy use, green energy, Renewable Energy
Posted in Efficiency
Posted in Efficiency
Renewables Are Cool, But Using Less Energy Is Far Better
Frequent Commenter John F. Robbins writes this marvelous response to the 2GreenEnergy survey on renewables: The most missing question or comment in your survey and most of this blog is how to move away from the current energy-guzzling nature of…
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…
Tagged with: alternative energy, clean energy, efficiency, global warming remedy, green energy, quiz on clean energy, Renewable Energy, take a cool guess, Wind Energy, wind power, wind turbines
Posted in Wind Energy
Posted in Wind Energy
Renewable Energy is Coming – But Why?
The other day I wrote a post on my Renewable Energy World blog which garnered a number of interesting comments that I thought I’d pass along. I began the post by indicating that important events in the world generally happen…
An Engineer Comments on "Renewable Energy and Basic Physics"
My friend Geoffrey Nicholson comments my post “Renewable Energy and Basic Physics”: Craig, I couldn’t agree more. Other than geothermal energy, all the other sources of energy available to us originally came from solar energy and with a rather lossy…
Tagged with: alternative energy, clean energy, efficiency, engineer, green energy, physics, Renewable Energy, solar energy, solar panel, solar power, Solar Thermal, Solyndra, Wind Energy, wind power, wind turbines
Posted in Renewables - Science
Posted in Renewables - Science
Hydrogen – Back Like a Rash
To my utter astonishment, we in the US and Europe are begieged with renewed interest in hydrogen. I urge readers to arrive at their own understanding of the merits of hydrogen as a carrier of energy. But for those who…
Solar Tour
I just got off the phone with a man I think of as “one of the good guys.” Jim Riggins, retired from the Air Force, now volunteers to “spread the gospel” of the National Solar Tour, through his work at…
Tagged with: alternative energy, clean energy, efficiency, green energy, multichromatic, Renewable Energy, solar energy, solar panel, solar power, thin film
Posted in Photovoltaics
Posted in Photovoltaics
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