From my colleague Jon LeSage: Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo division is preparing to launch the first-ever commercial autonomous vehicle service in early December, according to a source familiar with the plans.
Tag: cleantech
America At a Crossroads
Most Americans are unaware that the U.S. is the only country on Earth in which there exists a debate among its political elites as to the validity of the theory of anthropogenic global warming. Elsewhere, climate change is simply accepted …
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In Terms of Environmentalism, For Every Action There Is an Equal and Opposite Reaction
I met a guy at the farmers’ market just now who asked me what I was doing with my life. In the course of my explanation, I mentioned that renewables and cleantech generally are facing a stiff headwind associated with …
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Disruptive Technological Innovation Can’t Happen Too Soon
I met Bruce Wilson when we were in kindergarten together 57 years ago at a Quaker school (Penn Charter) in Philadelphia. In the course of the 13 years that followed our initial introduction, culminating in our graduation in 1973, he …
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Making Batteries from Carbon Dioxide: An Idea That Will Almost Certainly Never Come To Fruition
Here’s another example of a phenomenon so plentiful in cleantech: it’s doable, but there are no economic reasons that it will ever be done. It’s a battery system that is built by taking carbon dioxide, perhaps from a point source …
Making Tough Choices Re: Fossil Fuels
Frequent commenter MarcoPolo took some level of umbrage with my post in which I mentioned that the largest public university in the U.S. had divested itself from fossil fuels. His main point: damaging the oil companies’ profits would send the economy …
From Guest Blogger Chris Rowson: Paperless Alternatives in the Workplace
Every business has a huge obligation to reduce the carbon footprint of their operation. Thankfully many businesses are starting to take that seriously and realise the financial benefits of doing so from good brand PR and cost saving benefits. One …
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Investing in the Technology Sector
A friend has advised me to diversify into several different ETFs that focus on different sectors. People still like technology, most which, I suppose, largely means is better and cooler communications gadgets. There is no doubt Microsoft, Google and Apple …
Billionaire Peter Thiel on CleanTech
Here’s a 45-minute podcast featuring billionaire/mega-entrepreneur Peter Thiel (pictured), whose point is that the development of technology has hit a plateau, and that this phenomenon is creating disastrous effects for humankind. While I don’t agree completely, he’s certainly right in …
Jones & O’Malley: Great Bang for Your Buck in CleanTech PR
I’m a frugal guy, and, like most people who spend only when they must, I acquired this characteristic from my parents – in my case, principally from my father. Strangely, perhaps Dad’s greatest pet peeve was the misuse of the …
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