Category: Renewables – Business

A major beer brand just announced its switch to a 100% biodegradable substance, made from a mixture of by-product waste and compostable materials, to form the rings that hold six-packs together.  Now here’s an interesting question: Why doesn’t the existence of …

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Here’s a short video featuring the Republican (of all parties) mayor of a town in Texas (of all places), making the point that their commitment to renewable energy is driving down utility bills, while they pursue that radical notion of …

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Implied in the meme here is the notion that the fossil fuel industry is good for the economy, but let’s examine that.  It certainly has been true historically, in fact, most of the developments over the past couple hundred years …

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Our civilization may decide to take care of our environment because it’s the right thing to do.  More likely, however, we’ll wind up with cleantech because of its relative affordability vs. things like coal-fired power plants. 

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I have a great deal of respect for my colleague Fritz Maffry and his insights on the technology sector, and I certainly don’t want to make fun of him.  But here are a few lines from his most recent contribution …

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Here’s the latest from Fritz. – Craig    Tesla is about to do something remarkable in the transit space

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As discussed in this video, Chile just became the most recent country to dedicate itself to ridding its energy mix of coal at the maximum practical rate. Can’t the U.S. do the same?  No one’s asking for this to happen …

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A reader by the name of Will Watson asks a question about my lambasting the Joulebox as a silly scam: In your last sentence you refer to a scam or a group self-delusion. Does this mean that there is not a …

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It’s always time well-spent for me to go through Fritz’s offerings; hope you agree. I haven’t written much on the lithium air battery chemistry, but it’s an extremely important development insofar as it has a potential gravimetric energy density of …

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Modern domestic U.S. history can be summed up like this: Before about 1980, most Americans had good opportunities to get ahead if they worked hard, but since that time, they’ve fared very poorly. 

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