Sungevity, based in California and known for its home solar products and services, recently announced its international launch into Holland. While Sungevity has expanded across the U.S. into various states, this will be the first time it is crossing abroad. In …
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Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors
Frequent commenter and all-around smart guy Frank Eggers points out that there has been no discussion of liquid fluoride thorium reactors here at 2GreenEnergy. He’s absolutely right, and I propose we attempt to rectify this. Personally, I don’t know what …
Take a COOL Guess – the Fun Quiz on Clean Energy — Today’s Topic: Inexpensive Electricity
Question: How cheaply can we generate electricity if we don’t care what we do to the planet in the process? Answer: Can be found at here: Relevance: A friend told me about his trip to Inner Mongolia (see photo linked …
Global Climate Change — Great Video
At the rate of a few times a week I’m asked about global climate change, and I provide a brief summary, including the concept: This is complicated. No one knows exactly how changes in the constitution of our atmosphere will …
From Guest Blogger Carolina: Changing Lives Via Clean Energy
As solar companies strive to provide consumers with the sun’s renewable energy, they too are doing their part to help those in need. Many U.S. solar companies have reached out to the third world in effort to provide them with …
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The Downside to Environmentalism — Sorry, What Exactly Is That Again?
I was in a four-hour-long meeting this morning, learning about a new approach to energy storage. I can’t talk about the technology (which, frankly, I think is sketchy) but that’s not the point. The point is this: I sat at …
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A World of Sorrow and Beauty
Here’s Sting’s “Fields of Gold” – certainly one of the most powerfully moving pieces of music ever composed. And here’s what someone wrote about it on YouTube: “I heard this song in the hospital when I was there because I …
Onshore Wind at Grid Parity by 2016
According to Bloomberg, New Energy Finance, improved efficiencies and declining costs will make the average wind farm cost-competitive with coal, gas, and nuclear by 2016 (the best ones already are there). According to Justin Wu, the firm’s lead wind analyst: The …
Sustainable Economics
A friend asked me to respond to this piece about the Occupy Movement and its activity re: home foreclosures. Yes, there was gross corporate malfeasance in home mortgage lending that led to the crash of 2008 and the ongoing meltdown, and …
Why We’re Not Working On Global Climate Change
We all want to know why the developed countries don’t do something about global climate change, given that it’s we who have the power to control the destiny of civilization, as the preponderance of energy consumption falls disproportionately to the …
