[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BKRBsDSmBA&w=445&h=364] Lance Miller, president of DieselTek, speaks with on how start-ups form in clean diesel — or anywhere, for that matter. Lance corroborates my own belief that great partnerships are built on core, innate trust and affinity than on a …
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About Jeff Siegel, Contributor to "Renewable Energy Facts and Fantasies"
The book’s chapter “Renewable Energy – Another Viewpoint on Picking Stocks” is the transcipt on my interview with Jeff Siegel. Jeff is the co-founder and managing editor of Green Chip Stocks, an independent investment research service focusing primarily on renewable …
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Wally Rippel – "Cold Fusion is Legitimate Science"
Is cold fusion legitimate science, or a hoax? Wally Rippel believes the former. When we electrolyze heavy water, i.e., water made of deuterium and oxygen, in the presence of a palladium electrode, we wind up with more energy that we …
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Tough Realities – An Apt Description of the Migration to Renewable Energy
I friend of mine noticed that the concept of “Tough Realities” (as in the title of my report: Tough Realities for Renewable Energy Businesses) resonates with people. I agree. That’s the reason that I’ve subtitled my book (“Renewable Energy — …
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About Wally Rippel, Contributor to "Renewable Energy Facts and Fantasies"
The chapter of the book Renewable Energy — Facts and Fantasies entitled “Cold Fusion” is a transcript of the interview with Wally Rippel on this subject. Quote: “Imagine a liquid fuel which stores ten million times as much energy …
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Daylighting Collaborative and Intelligent Building Design
Echelon’s Steve Ngyuen, the fellow I interviewed for my book’s chapter on intelligent building management, spent a few minutes describing “light harvesting” to me — the idea of making use of the sun’s light the way buildings are designed, thus …
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US Policy on Clean Energy – The Road Not Taken?
A friend from the UK asked for my take on a new Swiss movie on Jimmy Carter’s efforts to reduce the United States’ dependence on oil at the end of the 1970s. He points out, “I am sure it will …
Unique Approach to Renewables Contracting – Global NES
I had a chance conversation with Nick Roberts, VP Sales of GlobalNES recently – a company in renewables that boasts an interesting angle. GlobalNES offers to arrange financing for, engineer, and install a range of commercial-sized clean energy systems – …
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Concentrated Solar Power in the Sahara Desert
Part of the reason that Bill Paul is so bullish on Northern Africa as a financial center for rrenewable energy is obvious: the Sahara Desert. Especially ripe for concentrated solar power, the desert is the solution to Europe’s thirst for …
Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air
In the process of writing my book on renewables I read quite a few others, including Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air (2009) by Dr. David JC MacKay. This is a fanstically worthwhile project by a professor of physics …
