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OK I so enjoy your 2green energy so much. I have approx. 75 to 100 projects that are looking for cash. I work on points with one other partner. I just don’t know what kind of money your group can raise per venture for 90% are truly ready and when you learn of the companies and participants you will truly be impress. I am and I don’t think things are so impressive. Craig Sheilds how do you work with groups are you even interested. If so we could three-way with my Partner David. We are already engineer. If interested please send me and email with a number to call and let the fun begin. Now I will read your free Free Report: “The Tough Realities of Renewable Energy Businesses” by Craig Shields. I will email our thoughts.
Great stuff. Please write in with a good time for us to get together by phone: craig@2greenenergy.com.
Dear Craig
Thanks for the work. Am developing clean energy for projects in Africa at the moment. No profits yet but am looking for partners or, individuals and associations that want to voluntarily support this initiative by helping us produce energy efficient stoves, give solar units and planting trees. We hope to provide cleaner energy and improve the society
Competing on fossil fuel’s terms will never work. Daylighting and solar thermal are the only presently competitive technologies, Hydro aside. Gathering energy from the building envelope for use inside the building is the strategy that will work.
PV (Gallium arsenide) at 20%, wired into a flourescent (at 15%) works out to a total 3% total energy conversion efficiency, compared to 70% on daylighting.
Solar thermal at 1 BTU/Sq.Ft./ Hour represents a lot of natural gas or oil, focused on a daylit 9-5 business schedule.
There is no high or low technology, only appropriate technology. Pushing product is lately the norm, but only lately.
Dear Craig,
Thank you.
One of the major hurdle one has to cross is marketing these products. Be it wind mills, solar modules or any other products.
We have to change the method of marketing here to make them compulsory at individual with the help of policy makers.
This is what i am doing at Bagalkot, Karnataka, India. The DC, Bagalkot has already initiated the process to get the gazette notification to make solar power for heating and lighting, Rain water harvesting for drinking water purpose, soak pits for dry waste management and infiltration tanks for liquid waste management mandatory, at individual level itself.
Public will be forced to make this investment as banks will offer soft loans to every individual and government will make this a scheme with subsidy facility for the beneficieries.
This way, entire town or city will become partially sustainable regarding power and water and completely sustainable regarding solid waste management.
This offers tremendous scope for solar module manufacturers, civil engineers, contractors and workers at implementation level.
Regards,
vasan
Richard wants to be sponsored please. He can write articles about 2 Green Energy and advertise for them as well. As the National Alternative Energy Examiner his articles are seen around the world. Please email him with 2 Green Energy or set up a conference; interviews are great too. He wants to be a major influence in alternative energy development and can convey the science and purpose of alternative energy related ideas to a general audience. Thank you.
We’d love to have you as a guest blogger. Please see my email.
Hello Craig,
We have chatted on the phone before about passive energy devices like our Temper Tank as seen on http://www.integritywatersolutions.com
I have found that selling, installing, and educating the market place can be likened to hand to hand combat. You have to fight each and every consumers doubt that your product will actually save them energy dollars.
Each time I place a tempering tank, it is like a farmer planting a seed in the ground. It takes a long time before the seed or product placement takes root, grows into visibility, and then is seen by that consumers family and friends, who in return want to glean from the fruit of that initial sale.
Each time a successful planting occurs I know that the multiplier of future sales is occurring as well. The season of actually having a consistent harvest is long, hot, and is not without it’s drought season. However in the end one has a full field to harvest product sales from.
Craig, to your readers, never give up. Do not try for the big sales score through manufactures, big box stores, or business chains. Let your fields start small and grow credability. It will then develop into the fruitful harvest that you desire.
Regards,
Gregory Addie
Integrity Water Solutions Inc
Yes, I remember our talks well. And I still have the brochure on your product, which I think is a terrific idea. In fact, I wrote a piece about it here: http://2greenenergy.com/tempertank/3776/.
I like the seed-planting metaphor, and I thank you for the sage advice.
Best of luck with this conept; it really is excellent.
Hi Craig,
Sometime in june of this year, Guz and I were invited to attend a World Bank sponsored workshop aimed at developing a Framework for the Rural Renewable Energy Sector in Liberia. At this workshop, we realised that there were many hurdles and impediments that prevented investors and entrepruneurs from making achievable goals. From the EU, UN, USAID, and other international partners perspective, the government had to come out with legislations that would create a level playing field by protecting both investors and entrepreneurs on the one hand, and consumers on the other. Presently, the energy sector in Liberia is catering to a minute portion of about 13% of the country, both residential and industrial. We should take cognizance of the fact that Right products in wrongful places could serve as barriers to generating profits. With a country like Liberia which just emerged from nearly two decades of civil unrests, the country is still underdeveloped; the emergence of an environmental friendly, clean and affordable source of energy can do the tricks in lifting the growing economy. Liberia have been listed by the World Bank as one of those countries where it is easy to do business, based on the robust reforms that are now in place. Having said the above, bureaucratic bottlenecks, remains one of the major factors which hinders investors and entrepreneurs from making profit.
Craig, thank you for your service. A group of experienced folks in fly-over America banded together about ten years ago to attempt to develop several qualified and distributed baseload bio energy fuel and generation projects. The group has evolved into a cooperative of small businesses and academic collaborators. We have remained loyal to the original premise, but have experienced few sucesses. Do you know the person at the Internal Revenue Service who is responsible for the grants in lieu of production tax credits? Attempting to work without first capital is impossible, regardless of what has been learned over this time frame. We have developed much literature concerning our experiences that might be interesting to your readers concerning this subject. If you are interested in establishing a dialog, it might be mutually beneficial.
Bob Hennkens, Director
Carbontech Cooperatives, Inc.
Apache Forest Restoration, LLC
Arid Lands Sustainable BioEnergy Institute
Clearstream Technologies, LLC
Enviromental Forest Solutions, LLC
Grow Fast, LLC
Hall Trucking Company
Healthy Acre Forestry, LLC
J & R Forestry, LLC
Kekaha Sugar Plantation, LLC
MARKETCOM
Mountain Country Co Generation, Incorporated
Red Lake Chapter, Navajo Nation
Paradise Bloom Landscaping, Inc.
Thunderbird Global Private Equity Center
University of Arizona School of Life Sciences
USDA ARS Maricopa
Western Renewable Energy, LLC
Western Renewable Fuels, LLC
Thanks, Bob. See my email.
For help with developing and licensing green inventions, have you taken a look at working with any nonprofit support organizations like Green2Gold? See http://www.inventorinsights.com/Green_Inventions_by_Green_Inventors_Green2Gold.html They are co-hosting a big clean business technology investment event in Santa Barbara on August 13th. You might give them a try.
Thanks very much for the tip; I’ll check this out, for sure.
Colleges will play a huge role in our future energy endeavors as a country. It’s very important that our universities contine to train students for a greener future