My participation in last week’s Energy Efficiency Summit also enabled me to talk about Doty Windfuels, under the heading of synthetic fuels more generally. One of the presenters cheerfully reported that one of the graduate students he’s mentoring had outlined…
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Discussing the Value of a Career in Renewable Energy with Jillian Seymour
Jillian Seymour, a 2GreenEnergy supporter and college student living in Lyon, France called me the other day, as I had agreed to an interview in which I would provide my advice on careers in renewable energy. In the course of…
Tagged with: careers in renewable energy, cleaner planet, Jillian Seymour, Lyon France, non-silicon PV substrate, synthetic fuels
Posted in Renewables - Science
Posted in Renewables - Science
An Enemy of a Working Energy Policy: Bad Ideas
I spend a fair amount of time writing about how the vested interests in energy (e.g., the oil companies), keep bad ideas in place (e.g., extracting and burning petroleum), at the expense of good ideas (e.g., renewables). But there is,…
Tagged with: coal-fired power plants, concentration of CO2 in surface waters, concrete manufacturing facilities, Dr. David Doty, energy policy, extracting and burning petroleum, oil companies, point-sources of carbon dioxide, renewables, Sea Fuels, synthesizing fuel from the CO2 in ocean water, synthetic fuels, U.S. Navy, vested interests in energy, working energy policy
Posted in synthetic fuel
Posted in synthetic fuel
Note on Synthetic and Biofuels
I just published a short post on the article: U.S. Air Force Report to Congress Bashes Navy’s Biofuels Program in which I mentioned that I find the people who presume to tell the U.S. Navy how it should be planning to defend our…
The Best Approach to Synthetic Fuels: Doty WindFuels
A reader asked if I would comment on this piece on using the carbon in CO2 to produce fuels. Yes, I’ve seen this, and yes, it works, if we want methanol, which generally we don’t. I believe that the best…
Tagged with: Doty Windfuels, methanol, synthetic diesel, synthetic fuels, synthetic gasoline
Posted in Biofuels
Posted in Biofuels
What To Do About Climate Change – And When To Do It
Senior energy analyst and frequent commenter Glenn Doty writes: Farmers are getting hit by the drought and heat wave. Wealthy southern landowners are getting hit by increased tropical storm activity… and everyone has to spend more to keep the air…
Tagged with: ARPA-E, cleantech, corruption, Doty Windfuels, Glenn Doty, global climate change, global warming, incompetence, poisonous political environment, R&D process, synthetic fuels
Posted in Climate Change
Posted in Climate Change
Today's Visit: Doty Windfuels — Exciting Development in Synthetic Fuels
Today it’s off to see Doty Windfuels, less than two hours’ drive south from my stops yesterday. This will require great concentration, as the advanced chemistry that is the mainstay of what they’re doing goes a bit over my head.…
22 Clean Energy Business Plans for Your Consideration
The list of clean energy business plans I support has reached 22 items in length – an all-time record. Each of these, in my estimation, represents a real breakthrough that clearly has the potential to make a huge impact on…
Tagged with: clean energy, clean energy business plans, concentrated solar power, CSP, electric transportation, Electric Vehicles, energy storage, gasification, Gulf Stream, microwind, Mozambique Current, ocean thermal, off-peak energy, OTEC, pyrolysis, Renewable Energy, renewable energy business plans, Solar Thermal, synthetic fuels, utility-scale energy storage, waste-to-energy, world energy scene, zinc-air batteries
Posted in Renewables - Business
Posted in Renewables - Business
Integrating Large Amounts of Wind Power Onto the Grid
I wrote a piece a few months ago on nay-sayers to wind, in which I pointed out that the UK’s Duke of Edinburgh just may be the king. In it, I noted: Here in the U.S., we have climate change…
Tagged with: Doty Windfuels, Duke of Gloucester, energy storage, nay-sayers to wind, synthetic fuels, Wind Energy, wind power
Posted in Wind Energy
Posted in Wind Energy
Windfuels — A Real Approach to the World Energy Picture
I’m proud to call Dr. David Doty a friend; he’s a man with a great heart, as well as an even greater intellect — and I eagerly learn like a sponge when I’m around him. But I also try to…
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