I attended a meeting of the Citizen’s Climate Lobby in Santa Barbara this morning, where our small group joined 189 others around the country on a videoconference. This virtual gathering featured two fabulous speakers who both made compelling and uplifting …
Tag: energy efficiency solutions
Is Hydrokinetics Coming to Myanmar? Probably Not
We’ve all seen the plummeting prices of solar, wind, energy efficiency solutions, energy storage and the rest. And while all that’s good, it creates huge stressors on other areas of clean energy technology: hydrokinetics, biomass and geothermal. Having said that, …
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Macro-Trends in Energy and the Environment
A friend who had been out of town just returned and asked what I’ve been observing in terms of energy and the environment, to which I respond: I can’t say that there’s anything new. There are huge forces pulling in both …
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Dealing with California’s Drought Requires Existing Solutions, Common Sense, and a Cessation of Political In-fighting
A reporter asks: I´m traveling to California´s Central Valley soon for a story on the drought there. I would very much like to hear from anyone who´s seriously affected by the drought, perhaps especially farmers who might now have to change …
Tagged with: burning fossil fuels, but not limited to the hyper-environmentalists who don’t want to see solar PV in the deserts because it reduces certain habitats. survival of animal species under greater threat from anthropogenic, California´s Central Valley, Dealing with California’s Drought, electrify transportation and remove coal entirely from our grid-mix, energy efficiency solutions, including, lower the carbon footprint of our buildings, reduce environmental degradation, solutions ignored/suppressed by vast moneyed interests, support of advanced nuclear. Each of these are political footballs of enormous proportion, water conservation in California needs to apply to agriculture, water-conservation products that address multi-family dwellings
Is the Trend Toward Distributed Solar Good for the Power Utilities?
Here’s a good article that asks if the coming boom in distributed solar is good for the utilities. The way I see it, the short answer is an emphatic No. Utility bills (i.e., their revenues) fall, and the need for …
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Wanted: A Level Playing Field for Efficiency Solutions and Renewable Energy
I’ve agreed that each of my posts appear on CleanTechies.com, as it simply represents an expanded audience. Here’s my recent piece on Germany’s PV subsidies, with a couple of sharp comments from Cleantechies’ readers. To Edward Kerr, who wrote: It’s …
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Low-hanging Fruit in Greenhouse Gas Reduction: Energy Efficiency
As we frequently discuss, the real low-hanging fruit when it comes to greenhouse gas reduction lies more in energy efficiency than it does in renewables. Efficiency invokes largely proven and inexpensive technologies, and holds the promise of putting many millions …
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