A few weeks ago, I was one of a lucky few to be invited to Seattle, the home of electrical distributor North Coast Electric Company, for a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Energy Transfer Merchant (“ETM,” a play on “ATM”), a …
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Here’s a fantastic article in Renewable Energy World, in which the author points to 10 quick and easy reasons that he believes the Earth will exceed the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s estimate that the total penetration of clean energy will …
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“The way to have good ideas is to have lots of ideas,” two-time Nobel prize laureate Linus Pauling said modestly. That’s something to think about, isn’t it? Don’t stress out about the quality of your ideas – at least initially. …
I got through the first half of Ian McEwan’s masterpiece “Solar” on the plane ride home from the East Coast this afternoon. For my money, he’s one of the top two or three living authors of fiction – and here, of …
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My new friend the lawyer writes in: I appreciate what you are doing. Somebody got me a subscription to Audubon magazine recently…maybe they are telling me I’m a birdbrain! I read a story in there yesterday which cheered the fact …
God only knows how many attorneys I insulted with my recent piece on the legal system. I’m pleased to note that one of them wrote me a very civil and insightful response:
I hope you can make this month’s webinar, in which we’ll be covering a terrific new idea that could make a real difference in the integration of renewables onto the grid-mix. Electrons, of course, have no color, nor do they …
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23ZbWSSBoIE] Here’s a few minutes of video on a business plan I really love. It’s a breakthrough in concentrated solar power, or CSP, aka solar thermal energy, made by a guy I’ve met and come to know and trust. …
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I had the pleasure of meeting Michael Pesin of the local power utility up here in Northwestern Washington State: Seattle City Light, at the launch of my client EV4’s new product, the “Energy Transfer Merchant.” I thought this conversation was …
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May I ask you a favor? I was in the process of editing the transcripts of the interviews I’ve conducted for my next book on renewable energy, when I realized: I don’t have a title that I really like. I …
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