It’s both important and fun to look down the road and see where the migration to renewable energy is taking us. What will it take to get to 80% penetration of wind and solar? How much storage is necessary? What …
Renewable Energy: How Much Storage Will It Take To Get There? Read More »
Since its inception coming up on eight years ago, 2GreenEnergy has attempted to sort out the issues that affect our civilization’s replacement of fossil fuels with renewables, and this, as we made clear at the start, encompasses the interactivity between …
Rule of Thumb for 2017: If You and I Care About It, It’s a Political Non-Starter Read More »
Is there anyone who didn’t see this coming? The developers of large solar PV arrays have all begun to implement energy storage, as the cost of lithium-ion battery technology continues to fall (along with the cost of solar itself). There …
Smiles All the Way Around: Solar Plus Storage Equals Tomorrow’s Energy Solutions Read More »
2GreenEnergy super-supporter Gary Tulie writes from beautiful Buckinghamshire, England (pictured):
We’re getting much better at harnessing the power of solar energy. Technology has advanced to the point where solar power isn’t something clunky but accessible for all sorts of users. One of the best devices you can get if you …
A Contributed Post: Five Advantages of Using Solar Battery Maintainer Read More »
A commenter notes about the green energy “boom,” The kind of reckless, overly optimistic, excessive spending that typifies a “boom” has largely dissipated, as new (sic) technologies mature. No one ever knowing participates in “reckless, overly optimistic, excessive spending.”
When modern-age electric vehicles first became “a thing” about 10 years ago, supercapacitors were a frequent topic of discussion, due to their value in delivering large amounts of power—far more energy per unit than batteries could provide. As it turns …
Here’s the first edition of Green Auto Digest for the New Year, from my colleague Jon LeSage. The take-away is that the two most important trends in transportation, i.e., autonomous vehicles and alt-fuel, are both moving forward at an impressive …
Every Christmas since we opened in 2009, I’ve written a hopeful little holiday message in the spirit of the season and the expectation of a bright New Year. At this point, however, I have to question the sanity, or at …
Here’s more evidence of an extremely important phenomenon on the world energy stage: the continued fall in the cost of solar electricity. Environmentalists continue to wring their hands as people like Rex Tillerson, Scott Pruitt, and Rick Perry are nominated …
