I loved my 1972 VW Beetle. It was the car my mom bought when I was a baby, and I spent many childhood hours riding in it and, when my parents replaced it, playing in, on, and around it. When …
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Yesterday, I attended the Alternative Clean Transportation Expo, in Long Beach, California. The show was dominated not by electric transportation (though EVs did enjoy a certain representation) but by natural gas. There was also some representation of biofuels, in particular, …
Alternative Clean Transportation Expo — Biofuels from Algae Read More »
One of the entrepreneurs whose project is included on our list of the clean energy business investment opportunities just sent me this article from Time Magazine on biofuels. The author’s point, in brief, is that we tend to underestimate the damage …
I’m not a believer in hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, since I don’t like the efficiency of creating the hydrogen, and I really detest the prospect of building another fuel-delivery infrastructure. Electric transportation has its issues re: power generation from coal, …
Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles and Battery-Driven Electric Transportation Read More »
Electric cars are gaining serious momentum, and the number of car makers that start investing in electric vehicle technology is constantly increasing, as they realize that the demand for this type of vehicles is only going to go up in …
When my colleague Jon Lesage of the Automotive Digest found me checking out the Alt Car Expo a few weeks ago, he asked me to say a few words on camera about my new book (“Renewable Energy — Following the …
The auto industry has not been as innovative as the IT, alternative energy, or the health care industry, mainly due to the fact that manufacturers haven’t been seeing any major potential benefits from making significant changes to the way they …
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In response to my recent piece on electric transportation in Seeking Alpha, EV naysayer Glenn Doty writes a response that concludes: “I just don’t get how any environmentalist could support these. If the people who buy solar panels and a …
Frequent commenter Tim Kingston sent me this piece called “Better Batteries, Better World,” and notes, “Interesting topic for Foreign Affairs magazine; they rarely talk about renewables.” I don’t normally read Foreign Affairs; thanks for pointing it out. I’m delighted this …
An old friend from high school has invited me to be a guest on his radio show which takes a conservative perspective on the topics of the day. I’ll be on for an hour to talk to him and entertain …
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