When I was a little boy, I recall a conversation with my father in which he told me his impressions about the characteristics of the people who lived in a few of the states within driving distance of us in …
Tag: clean energy
Personal Connections May Be Good for the Renewable Energy Cause
As I hoped it would be, my college reunion was a feel-good mixture of nostalgia, immersion in some good thinking offered in a few seminars, and revelry with old friends. But it was also quite productive, from the standpoint of …
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Clean Energy Meetings on Both Coasts
Tomorrow night marks the start of a trip out of town for me. I’ll be headed to San Francisco for a couple of meetings, including coffee with my friend Fareed Sfard, CEO of solar thermal start-up Ahura Energy. Then it’s …
Discussion on Global Climate Change
Dale writes: Craig, you are proceeding from a liberal fallacy that only the uneducated doubt catastrophic climate change. I have BS in meteorology and an MS in environmental engineering, for the last 30 years I have been a practicing environmental …
Electric Vehicles and Clean Energy: Moving Beyond Hydrocarbon Fuels
In response to my piece on the electric vehicle adoption curve, in which I suggested that EVs represented more than a “niche” market, frequent commenter and senior physicist Glenn Doty wrote: Most of those multi-car households have one SUV or …
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Investors in Clean Energy: A Different Breed
Here’s a report of macro-trends observed by venture capital giant Kleiner Perkins. To me, the most noteworthy thing about it is the concept that Kleiner managing partner Ray Lane explained in a conversation he and I had in his office …
From Guest Blogger Brian McGowan: Renewable Energy — Summer Ops
Summer has arrived and it is time to change how I use energy around the house. First order of business was to disconnect the solar air heater from the house and remove the interface from the window in the computer …
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2000th Blog Post on Renewable Energy
It is with great joy that I announce that this is our 2000th blog post. My profound thanks to our regular readers, whose enthusiasm for the subject and willingness to tell their friends has caused the site’s traffic to grow …
Guest Blogging on Clean Energy
Wow, I just noticed that our next post will be our 2000th! That’s the good news. The bad news is that I wrote 1721 of them. Let’s see if we can get a few more guest-bloggers active over the course …
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Clean Energy and Fossil Fuels: A Polarizing Issue
“Stephen Lacey” is a familiar name to many readers here. Stephen is one of the most impressive young people I’ve ever met. Fresh from a journalism major in college, he learned more about the clean energy industry in a few months …
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