A reader waxes enthusiastic, in a kindhearted attempt to provide encouragement for me in my discussions at the Cato Institute next week. In particular, he points to the DoE “Monthly Energy Report,” and notes: Renewable energy sources have now surpassed …
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Is Renewable Energy a Threat To Economic Prosperity?
I’m proud that Tom Konrad, famed stock market analyst and editor of AltEnergyStocks.com, offers his comments here frequently. In a post yesterday, he offered me guidance in wrapping my wits around the issue of green jobs, directing me to his …
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OTEC Corporation — A Leader in Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion
As the name suggests, OTEC Corporation, whom I’m meeting next week on my trip back East, is one of the leaders in the development of ocean thermal energy conversion, a technology with huge potential to change the world energy picture. …
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Must Eco-friendliness Come at the Expense of the Economy?
Here’s a wonderful article that gets at an issue I come across constantly: the implication that environmentalism and job growth are opposed to one another. Considering we have the option to put literally millions of people back to work in …
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Jerry Taylor, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, Contributes to “Renewable Energy – Following the Money”
I have 13 meetings lined up over five days next week spread out from Washington, DC to Boston, starting with an interview with Jerry Taylor, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, conservative think-tank in our nation’s capital. I successfully appealed …
Costs of Renewable Energy Can Only Decline
Here’s an article about a breakthrough in solar power efficiency, which serves as a reminder of an important fact: the cost of renewable energy can only fall, while the cost of fossil fuels can only rise. I’m not saying that …
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Role of Government in Migrating to Clean Energy
I was delighted with the discussion pursuant to my piece on moral philosophy and energy policy. I note that most comments support my beliefs that a) young minds should be exposed to man’s great questions, b) we all do, in …
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Explaining Clean Energy’s Tough Realities to Entrepreneurs
I spoke at the Mark Taper Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles (pictured here) yesterday, introducing 2GreenEnergy to an audience of entrepreneurs, each of whom came with an idea, looking for investment capital. It’s always exciting to get behind a microphone …
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Infographic: The Pros and Cons of Renewable Energy
Whenever I speak on renewable energy, I’m careful to leave my audience with a sense of the “tough realities.” We all want simple answers to our questions, but in the case of clean energy, none exist. There are dozens of …
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Moral Philosophy and Energy Policy
Last week, my son, a college freshman, sat down to his first class in philosophy. First, can someone tell me why philosophy isn’t taught in high school? Is there some reason we think we need to shelter kids from life’s great …
