Rogelio writes: I think that anybody contemplating a career in clean energy has always to take a look at the engineering and scientific aspects of the field to find a very demanding and yet rewarding career, why because we live …
Tag: alternative energy
Does Our Society Value Its Scientists?
Tagged with: alternative energy, clean energy, green energy, Renewable Energy, senior physicists, Wally Rippel
Video: The Migration to Renewable Energy
Here’s another episode of the television show “Our Ventura” in which host George Alger interviews me with respect to the adoption of renewable energy. I tried to answer as many questions as the 15-minute time-slot would allow. How far have …
From Guest Blogger Alia Haley: 7 Ways Homeowners Can Power Their Homes with Renewable Energy
You can see lots of attention is focused towards alternative and renewable energy systems. This is due to the soaring energy costs and the need to decrease the climate change effects over earth. Though these solutions may seem complicated for …
Tagged with: alternative energy, biomass combustion boilers, energy investment, geothermal heating, global climate change, global warming, hydrogen fuel cells, micro hydro energy systems, Renewable Energy, soaring energy costs, solar energy, solar hot water, solar panels, solar power, Solar Thermal, wind turbines
A Career in Clean Energy? Here’s Some Advice
Each week I receive several emails requesting my advice on career paths within the clean energy space. I thought I’d take a few minutes and jot down a few of the ideas that I normally try to express in response. …
Tagged with: alternative energy, biology, chemistry, clean energy, clean energy career path, coal companies, drill baby drill, engineering, enviorment, environmental action group, environmentalism, green energy, Is Renewable Really Doable, Natural Resources Defense Council, NRDC, oil companies, physics, Political Economy Research Institute, Renewable Energy, Robert Pollin
China’s Investing in Renewables — But Why?
Frequent commenter Duke Brooks writes in: Americans who rail against U.S. polluters should probably spend a few days in the world’s most polluted city, Beijing. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, as they say. But the …
From Guest Blogger Brian McGowan: Solar Cooking — Because I Can
For amusement only…. Today I cooked mashed potatoes in my solar oven. The oven is made of one of those shiny windshield shades, a rack from an old countertop oven, a very large clear plastic pretzel container and a 2lb …
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Tagged with: alternative energy, clean energy, Craig Shields, green energy, Renewable Energy, Solar Cooking, solar energy, solar power
Getting Smarter About Renewable Energy
A reader asked for my opinion on this article in RealClearScience, a well-written and innocuous primer on renewable energy. The premise: “keep pushing, but push smarter” is hard to argue with. I’m reminded of people who caution “Be careful!” when …
Is “Business As Usual” with Respect to the Natural Environment an Acceptable Strategy?
I’m delighted to see real progress being made in the public discourse surrounding sustainability. While most people still have the idea that continuing with “business as usual” with respect to our environment is an acceptable strategy, more of us are …
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Basics of Renewable Energy
Ross Guthrie, one of 2GreenEnergy’s web-programming superstars, has just completed this page that offers a compilation of the Basics of Renewable Energy, the videos and infographics that my team and I have been putting together over the past few months. It looks …
Frontline on PBS: Nuclear Aftershocks
I hope everyone gets the opportunity to catch this episode of Frontline on PBS: Nuclear Aftershocks — one that essentially claims that nuclear energy is both unacceptably dangerous but completely necessary. I’m reminded of the way Amory Lovins begins his current-day presentations: …
