Frequent commenter Glenn Doty writes: What would really be nice is an infographic comparing the cost of mitigating CO2 with various alternatives… just to put the different alternatives into proper perspective. For instance, how much more does it cost to …
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Electric Vehicles and CO2 Emission Abatement
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Energy Storage, Pumped Hydro, and Synthetic Fuels
Here is a magnificent piece on energy storage: a perfect blend of the basic science and economics. It’s a very readable explanation of how and why storage will be required to integrate significant amounts of renewables on the grid. Today, …
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Zinc-air Batteries — The Breakthrough We’ve Been Awaiting?
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex0yLY6YuR4]Here’s a short interview in which I answer a few questions about zinc-air battery energy storage, a subject that’s been in front of the scientific and investment communities since the 1970s. Is this one the real deal? Personally, I …
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China, Renewables, and Energy Storage
Here’s an excellent article that expands on what I wrote in my report on China and renewable energy. I agree with a great deal of this, but the figures on the amount of energy and the amount of money …
A Few Perspectives on Energy Storage
One of the things I enjoy most about shows like Storage Week, sitting through many dozens of presentations on energy storage, is the breadth of perspective on the subject of clean energy. We all know that ultimately, storage is 100% …
Energy Storage – News from the Infocast “Storage Week” Show
There are elements of the energy business that I find monstrously complex – namely, everything but the technology. The political wranglings – the way the federal, regional, state, and local agencies work in conjunction with the utilities and the regulatory …
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Energy Storage: Key Enabler for the Deployment of Renewables — A Lecture on Utility-Scale Batteries
As a part of our recent discussion on energy storage, Larry Sobel wrote in, calling my attention to this fabulous lecture given by a brilliant and thoroughly entertaining chemistry professor at MIT, who calls upon his students to think differently and go …
Energy Storage Vital To Attaining High Penetration for Renewables
Frequent commenter Frank Eggers is right as rain with his comments on my recent solar thermal piece in which he writes: Superior (technology) would not solve the problem resulting from the fact that the sun is not always shining. …. …
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Interesting Presentations at the Summit on Energy Efficiency
I spent a few happy hours at the Santa Barbara Summit on Energy Efficiency over the last couple of days. Most (though not all) of the presentations were really good, and totally relevant to the audience. I was really pleasantly …
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Synthetic Fuels — Cutting-Edge Ideas on Energy Storage
Here’s a short follow-up to my piece on synthetic fuels the other day, in which I mentioned that I would be driving up to San Jose for another “Craig Shields…At Your Service” session. I spent the day with Dr. David …
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