In the year 2009, the year 2GreenEnergy was launched, the world of renewable energy had high hopes for the technology shown at left. At the time, solar thermal had a huge advantage over competitive approaches to clean power, in particular, …
Category: Solar Thermal
Solar Thermal: Down But Not Out
The plummeting price of solar PV delivered what appeared at the time to be a death blow to the solar thermal industry, aka concentrated solar power (CSP). Here, however, we have the Israeli government unveiling a $23 billion USD plan …
Solar Thermal
Here’s a little piece of renewable energy fraud that I thought readers might enjoy. It relies on people’s abundant ignorance of solar thermal itself (aka concentrated solar power/CSP), a technology that has been around for decades, and is struggling to …
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American Business Once Had a Conscience
What Thomas Edison said here in the 1880s is a reminder that all this could have gone another way; i.e., the entire environmental mess in which we find ourselves today could have been avoided. Of course, before solar PV and …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Climate Heroes
Question: Sweden has taken more action than any other country to mitigate climate change. What country ranks #2?
Solar-Powered Gadgetry
I’m normally not a fan of solar-powered gadgets, because in most cases there’s a more convenient way to accomplish the task at hand using a minimum of energy, and the device in question has more value as a novelty than …
Solar Thermal: A Comeback?
A lot of water has gone under the bridge since the launch of 2GreenEnergy almost exactly 10 years ago. From the perspective of solar, we saw: Lots of promise for solar thermal (aka concentrated solar power or CSP)
Solar Thermal: Not Gone, Not Forgotten
When I wrote Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies in 2010, solar thermal (aka concentrated solar power or CSP) was a big deal, largely because of the way it readily lent itself to solving the intermittency issue via energy storage as heat, …
In All Things, There Comes a Time When the Winner Wins and the Loser Loses
Those of us who subscribe to Dictionary.com’s “Word of the Day” know that some words seem to call out to us to make them part of our working vocabularies, while others are of passing interest, at best. Today, for instance, …
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Might Solar Thermal Energy Succeed After All?
When we kicked off 2GreenEnergy in the summer of 2009, I (wrongly) predicted that solar thermal, aka concentrated solar power (CSP) would soon come to dominate the field of renewable energy, largely because of the way it lends itself to …
