If you happen to be an accredited investor and haven’t seen the “Investors’ Page” for a while, you may want to have a peek. It’s a repository for some solid, investment-worthy concepts in clean energy and sustainability more generally, and I’ve recently updated it with a few ideas I’ve encountered over the past few weeks; most of the new ones are at the bottom of the page:
It’s the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings in 1066, when William the Conqueror defeated the English. Shortly after, he and his Normans moved on to London, where he was crowned William I.
While I’m sure there are tons of reasons that this is significant, certainly a major one is that it resulted in the introduction of the Romance languages, primarily French, into the English language, which, at the time, was dismally narrow and crude. (more…)
Here’s a conversation with sustainability maven Brandi Veil that I thought readers might enjoy, based on my earlier post in which I promoted her brilliant concept on sharing: Peer.org.
Brandi: Hey you! Thanks for the share! If you’re around for tomorrow’s event 8-10 PM dinner with peers I would love to have ya! Address is ….
Craig Sorry, I won’t be able to make it, but it sounds fantastic.
Brandi: Perhaps the next one.
Craig: I’d like that very much. Btw, I had to laugh when you said I’d be around peers — and of course, I get the reference to your project. But your friends, though we probably agree on a number of topics, are hip, good-looking young people. My friends, even in their kindest moments, wouldn’t even think of describing me that way.
When the terms “waste,” e.g., municipal solid waste or MSW is used at sites like 2GreenEnergy, it usually refers to projects where these materials are removed from a landfill, or redirected away from a landfill and chemically processed into electricity or fuels. Seldom do we realize that landfills are actually a much preferred destination than illegal dumping, which, of course, is terrible for the environment. (more…)
I am a believer in the concept of sharing as a core tool to drive sustainability. Perhaps the most obvious manifestations that we’re starting to see today are in transportation: ride-sharing and, increasingly popular, car-sharing. I just can’t imagine living in a city like Washington DC, Boston or San Francisco and owning a car, but it would be great to have easy and inexpensive access to one when I was travelling outside of such a city and public transportation didn’t make sense.
Yet the idea goes beyond the realm of mobility. As “Story of Stuff” spokesperson Annie Leonard muses, “What if we all didn’t need our own crème brulee blowtorches? What if we could just borrow one from our local library?”
And here’s a concept, Peer.org, that my friend Brandi Veil sent me just now, that I’d like to “share” on her behalf.
A reader sent me this article of “high-concentration solar PV thermal” http://dailyfusion.net/2013/04/new-high-concentration-photovoltaic-thermal-system-will-collect-80-of-solar-energy-6391/ and asks: do you believe Concentrated Solar Power or ‘High Concentration Photovoltaic Thermal’ is still 30-40 years away? (more…)
As I’m sure readers here have observed, my opinions on climate change are taken directly and exclusively from the 97+% of mainstream climate scientists, some of whom I know personally, that tell us two things:
• anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is real (more…)
In the course of a phone conversation I had yesterday with a young man looking for advice about a career in renewable energy, he happened to mention this Ted Talk, about a fascinating idea to stem desertification in Africa.
The Sahara is expanding southward through the northern regions of Nigeria at the rate of an astonishing 600 meters per year, via a continuously moving avalanche of sand dunes. (more…)
Frequent commenter Glenn Doty writes on my recent post concerning the EV adoption rate:
Your source states that 67,200 EV’s have been sold this year, but that number is a worldwide total sales figure.
Total worldwide sales of ICE’s are north of 60 million thus far this year… so roughly one EV is sold for every 1000 ICEV’s. I don’t think you’ve gotten enough penetration to confirm that this will be anything but an extreme niche. (more…)
A reader just emailed me to say:
I saw your post referring to an article about Norway investing in alternative energy while I was doing some research on solar power. I enjoyed it very much and was glad you shared it with your readers, including myself.
I wonder if you’d heard much about the recent push for “zero-net” household; home and business owners are reducing their energy use and creating their own electricity in various ways. (more…)
