[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0TnJz8HWtA&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&border=1] Sam Smith, of EV World Associates (an organization of which I’m a part) talks to me about electric vehicles and their history on a recent episode of the 2GreenEnergy Report.
Tag: alternative energy
Ammonia Fuel Network — Great Presentation on Energy Storage and Transmission
The Ammonia Fuel Network’s Executive Direct John Holbrook was good enough to send me a few DVD’s in which Bill Leighty made presentations on the numbers that surround ammonia a fuel. I was struck by a number of things. First, …
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Liquid Ammonia as Fuel — Summary
Like hydrogen as a fuel, liquid ammonia is a carrier of energy, as opposed to a source of energy. When we create ammonia out of nitrogen and hydrogen, we add energy to form a compound that can later be broken …
Gallium Arsenide in Photovoltaics
For anyone who may be interested, here’s a link to an article Shannon Combs wrote on an apparent breakthrough at the University of Illinois in the use of gallium arsenide in photovoltaics.
Energy Policy and Land Use
The migration to renewable energy is complicated by a great number of factors in the renewable energy “triumvirate” -technological, economic, and political. The chart below shows one of many different dimensions of this complexity: land use – which, when you …
Excellence in Market Research
In response to my complaint about Deloitte’s recent market research study on electric vehicles in which it was clear (to me at least) that they had surveyed irrelevant people as thus missed the mark with their conclusions, a gentleman named …
Electric Vehicle Start-ups
Abhishek writes in: “… electric vehicle startups require large amounts of capital to go into production. The continuous need for large capital infusions makes partnerships with established companies with large balance sheets essential. I think some of these ventures would …
Tagged with: alternative energy, clean energy, consolidation, electric vehicle, OEMs, Renewable Energy
Jim's New Solar Biz: Today's Energy Solutions
Frequent contributor Jim Gilbeau writes that he and Jeff Bertsch started a new solar business, which he describes as follows: Once elected, President Obama asked America’s business capitalists/entrepreneurs to use their abilities, to think up new and creative ideas to …
The Top Twenty Takeover Candidates among Publicly Traded Alternative Energy Companies Headquartered in the U.S.
I want to call readers’ attention to 2GreenEnergy Associates Bill Paul’s report: The Top Twenty Takeover Candidates among Publicly Traded Alternative Energy Companies Headquartered in the U.S. As I’ve mentioned, speaking with Bill Paul really is like drinking from a …
Concentrated Solar Power (CSP)
The other day, I wrote a short post on Renewable Energy World extolling the virtues of concentrated solar power, and predicting that CSP would someday (probably in my grandchildren’s lifetimes) dominate the landscape of world energy production. Almost immediately, someone …
