I try to keep my “networking” hat on, attending seminars and meetings, and generally getting to know as many people in the industry as possible. The concept is certainly not lost on the folks at Opportunity Green, who recognize that …
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Sustainability Networking
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MoveToAmend — Ridding Government of Corruption
It’s good to see MoveToAmend.Org gaining steam. On Tuesday, an overwhelming 75 percent of voters in Missoula, Montana said that corporations aren’t people, and shouldn’t receive the same legal treatment as people. The referendum’s sponsor, Councilwoman Cynthia Wolken, is apparently pretty …
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Cleantech Entrepreneurs: The Most Sincere Response to a Market Research Survey Is a Check In Your Hand
Last night’s talk at Catalyst for Thought was on the subject of validating one’s market, which happens to be the core of the business I ran for almost 30 years. Thus I heard a great number of my own words …
Geothermal Heat Pumps Face Strange Barriers to Adoption
Geothermal (Ground-Source) Heat Pumps (GHPs) make use of a completely different set of principles than the kind of geothermal we commonly discuss. Where the latter relies on the transfer of thermal energy from one fluid to another, like an egg …
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Talking Clean Energy in Environmental Science and Engineering Magazine
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLy6jkF0z5w]Here’s a recent interview I did with a writer for “Environmental Science and Engineering Magazine” for support of an article he’s writing on clean energy. He’s a young guy, straight out of college, but I thought he did a …
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Is Learning About Clean Energy Dangerous?
It’s the birthday of the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, whose murder in 1940 I believe to be one of the most significant events in recent human history. Where Stalin was a vicious thug, Trotsky was an intellectual. Who knows what …
KPMG Energy Report Is Positively Orwellian
Only a few people, a dozen or so at most, have English language adjectives derived from their names them that are in common parlance: Jeffersonian (often modifying “democracy”), Keynsian (economics), Dickensian (England), etc. While I haven’t done a study on …
Arundo Donax – One of the Diverse Feedstocks Used To Create Biofuels
A reader wrote in with a question about his plans to get in the ethanol business, using a certain feedstock in which he’s an expert. Indeed, one of the most interesting things about biofuels is the enormous diversity of feedstocks. …
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What the Great Patriots of History Would Say About Our Energy Policy
It’s the birthday of John Philip Sousa, the “March King,” born in 1854. Best known for his patriotic music, the U.S. Marine Corps Hymn “Semper Fidelis,” and of course “Stars and Stripes Forever.” Sousa loved a rousing live performance, and …
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The ROI on Solar Thermal – aka Concentrated Solar Power
I wrote recently that it’s impossible to predict the ROI associated with solar thermal (aka concentrated solar power or CSP). What I was referring to was utility-scale CSP. Personally, I think the future will hold significant reductions in costs and …
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