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by Craig ShieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

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Lance Miller, president of DieselTek, speaks with on how start-ups form in clean diesel — or anywhere, for that matter. Lance corroborates my own belief that great partnerships are built on core, innate trust and affinity than on a cold, rational appraisal of a partner’s value in some sort of mathematical equation.

As it turns out, both Lance and the company’s founder and CEO, Eric Wheeler, have had their hands on mechanical devices — and had life circumstances that steered them towards entrepreneurship — since they were boys.

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by Craig ShieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

The book’s chapter “Renewable Energy – Another Viewpoint on Picking Stocks” is the transcipt on my interview with Jeff Siegel. Jeff is the co-founder and managing editor of Green Chip Stocks, an independent investment research service focusing primarily on renewable energy and organic & natural food markets. Jeff also works as a consultant, has been a featured guest on Fox, CNBC, and Bloomberg Asia, and is the author of the best-selling book, Investing in Renewable Energy: Making Money on Green Chip Stocks.

 

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 I consider myself a pretty outspoken environmentalist. And I make no apologies for this. It is incomprehensible to me how anyone could take all the beauty that God has created and treat it like a sewer. That being said, I’m also a capitalist. I firmly believe that there is no greater system than a real and honest free market, where hardworking folks can thrive and succeed. It is also a real and honest free market that can enable our transition to a cleaner and stronger energy economy.

 

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Please see Green Chip Stocks.

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by Craig ShieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

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DieselTek’s president Lance Miller discusses his company’s clean diesel solutions and its marketing challenges with me on a recent edition of the 2GreenEnergy Report. The principal issue here is a “noisy” environment, in which numerous competitors with inferior products (but significant marketing budgets) have confused the audience — and created a climate of great doubt and skepticism of the clean diesel industry generally.

Fortunately, DieselTak has a compelling response. I hope you’ll check it out.

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by Craig ShieldsPosted on Posted in Electric Vehicles

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Pat Mahan explicates his organization’s long-term plans on the 2GreenEnergy Report.  I really loved having Pat on the show.  He was comfortable and relaxed, but really took the obligation to articulate the value of car sharing — especially sharing alternative fuel vehicles — extremely seriously.  Check out FunRide to lean more.

I’m completely convinced that this whole idea occupies an important part of the “sustainability wedge.”

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by Craig ShieldsPosted on Posted in Electric Vehicles

PhotobucketWant a good, quick read?  Check out (FedEx Chairman) Fred Smith’s testimony to the Senate Fiance Committee — and note in particular Joseph Lado’s comment under it.  In my estimation, this is precisely on target, and exactly the type and level of indignation that rhetoric like Smith’s needs to provoke. 

As Lado points out, there is nothing wrong with forming a group like The Electrification Coalition — but we need to note that it was formed last year. FedEx has been tinkering at the edges of this problem for years, generating fantastic publicity (famously driving a single van across historic Route 66), while making very little real progress — over a period of a couple of decades — in terms of changing out its fleet in favor of EVs.

In his letter to Fred Smith, Lado asks:

The reality is that the United States has had an oil dependency problem creating strategic, economic and pollution problems for nearly 4 decades now. When are you going to stop playing at green and make the real plunge? Please. Make a commitment, even better yet make a pledge to not purchase another petrol powered vehicles to replace retired fleet vehicles. Purchase instead, good, reliable, working and tested electric vehicles, to replace them.

It’s great to see stuff like this. The problem, of course, is that Fred Smith’s testimony has received many thousand times the volume of coverage than Joseph Lado’s insightful response.

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by Craig ShieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

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Lance Miller of DieselTek discusses clean diesel technology with me on a recent episode of the 2GreenEnergy Report. I tried not to trivialize Lance’s position as a representative of his company, but frankly, it sounds easy, since everyone involved wins! The customer has a low-cost way to get into compliance with strict government mandates, his truck runs better, and he saves money on fuel. What’s not to like?

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by Craig ShieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

Wally Rippel says that he’s sorry to note that a great deal of the evangelical world actively works against environmental friendliness. They seem to see fossil fuels as their allies, and ecologically sound solutions as their enemies.

Here is more information on Wally Rippel and his contribution to Renewable Energy – Facts and Fantasies (by Craig Shields, published by Clean Energy Press, 2010).

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by Craig ShieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

Wally Rippel pointed out to me that there have been numerous casualties from the political and economic fall-out surrounding cold fusion. As an example, Dr. Peter Hagelstein at MIT, best known for his X-ray laser, is also a strong proponent of cold fusion. He’s been isolated from the entire scientific community because of that belief.

Here is more information on Wally Rippel and his contribution to Renewable Energy – Facts and Fantasies (by Craig Shields, published by Clean Energy Press, 2010).

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by Craig ShieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

Wally Rippel pointed out to me that the human side of the equation is even more interesting than the science. There has been a calculated effort to discredit the idea of cold fusion. For obvious reasons, cold fusion threatens existing energy-related interests, and those interests have been intensely aggressive with throwing people off the trail.

When I asked him about this, he affirmed that researchers from Cal Tech and MIT did, in fact, find nuclear products; they fudged the numbers to get the DoE off the case. The US Navy and Lawrence Livermore have also found clear evidence of nuclear results.

Here is more information on Wally Rippel and his contribution to Renewable Energy – Facts and Fantasies (by Craig Shields, published by Clean Energy Press, 2010).

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by Craig ShieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Science

Wally Rippel believes that it was simply an intellectual error to assume that fusion could only happen in the way it was does in the explosion of a hydrogen bomb, i.e., 100+ million degrees Kelvin and extremely short time periods (10^-22 seconds).

Here is more information on Wally Rippel and his contribution to Renewable Energy – Facts and Fantasies (by Craig Shields, published by Clean Energy Press, 2010).

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