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Legitimacy of Solar Energy
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“I Know a Lot about Wind,” Trump Says. Well, Maybe Not
Anyone could have predicted how Donald Trump might address the subject of wind power. He’d start by falsely claiming that he “knows a lot” about the topic, then, in an effort to denigrate clean energy, he’d prove the precise opposite …
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Government Investment in Algae as Fuel
ARPA-E (The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Administration – Energy) is investing an average of about $600K into each of 18 projects associated with algae as fuel. They write: Today, nearly all domestic biomass produced for electricity generation …
Appointing Unqualified Cabinet Members To Destroy the Federal Government Is Appalling, But in This Case It’s Illegal As Well
A diverse array of more than 50 advocacy groups, including Friends of the Earth, ActionAid USA, the National Family Farm Coalition, Patagonia, and Sierra Club, delivered a letter to all 100 U.S. senators earlier today, demanding that they disapprove the …
President Trump Nominates One of My School Chums General Counsel to the U.S. Department of Energy
David Jonas was a year behind me (and several rungs ahead of me on the tennis ladder) when we attended the William Penn Charter School, an independent, K-12, Quaker institution in Philadelphia in the early 1970s. Now, President Trump has …
Science Is Indifferent To Our Beliefs
We’ve all heard the aphorism: “Physics doesn’t care what you believe.” Here’s a wonderful case in point: the U.S. Department of Energy has banned the use of the term “climate change.” It can’t get any more asinine than this, can …
Inductive Charging of Electric Vehicles Make a Great Deal of Sense in Certain Applications
For years, we’ve been discussing the impact of wireless (inductive) charging of electric vehicles. The most obvious use of such technology is in buses and other automobiles that make routine stops in predictable places, e.g., shuttle buses that deliver passengers …
Florida Lags in Renewable Energy, And Here’s Why
Frank from Florida writes: Hi Craig, Yes, the Department of Energy is doing wonderful things. Here I am sitting in a state, where it has been said time and time again how productive Florida would be with solar, and yet …
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The ARPA-E Show: It Doesn’t Get Much Better
The annual Department of Energy “ARPA-E” show (Advanced Research Projects Administration-Energy) ranks among the very best events of the year for us here in the U.S. who are interested in the forward progress of cleantech, and for several reasons: 1) …
2GreenEnergy Hits the Road
Next week features four meeting in Manhattan followed by motor trips to Eastern Massachusetts, Syracuse NY, and Washington DC for the annual ARPA-E show. Here, the Department of Energy gets to show off its many investments in clean energy—a conference …
