The populations in most countries are becoming increasingly eco-conscious, as evidenced by reports like this one, indicating that there are now more bicycles than cars in Copenhagen. To be fair, it’s possible that a cause on this is the 100% …
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Making Our Way Towards Sustainability
Tagged with: clean energy, eco-conscious, efficiency solutions, Electric Vehicles, energy storage, increasing cost-effectiveness of renewable energy, more bicycles than cars in Copenhagen, our civilization's path to environmental sustainability, we will decarbonize our energy and transportation sectors whether we give a damn about our environment or not
Cool New Idea in Wind Turbines
Here’s a new idea in the quest to reduce or remove the variability of wind energy: an integrated water reservoir, making use of the huge watertight tower. This creates a (small) pumped hydro energy storage solution without the elevation change. …
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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This Report on Flow Batteries Will Make You Smile
A reader from the Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto, CA, a group that’s heavily committed to sustainability, writes: For an emotional uplift check out the flow battery progress sponsored by ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Administration-Energy).
Pro-nuke People Look Askance at Energy Storage and Variable Resources
I’ve mentioned that I like to keep tabs on a pro-nuke (anti-renewables) group, and make helpful contributions to their discussions. Recently, I notice that they’re a bit freaked out that the cost of lithium-ion batteries is soon to fall to …
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Insights from a Top-Notch Cleantech Businessman
In the 10 years I’ve known Kansas City-based cleantech businessman Fritz Maffry, I’ve always been impressed with his understanding of the macro issues associated with energy and transportation. Fortunately, Fritz has the wonderful habit of jotting down his thoughts periodically …
Marketing Can Be Shameless, and the Products It Promotes Can Be Harmful
I’ve been chatting with an old friend who, like me, had a long career in marketing; she became a VP at Grey Advertising. She told me about her experience at a practice round for the PGA Championship (that starts today …
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Tagged with: catastrophic climate change, electric transportation, energy storage, loss of biodiversity, marketing, ocean acidification, renewable energy and all the peripheral technologies, smart grid, sustainable ag, the fossil fuel boys knew 35 years ago that their business model (extracting the last molecule of petroleum out of the ground and burning it
Making Tough Choices Re: Fossil Fuels
Frequent commenter MarcoPolo took some level of umbrage with my post in which I mentioned that the largest public university in the U.S. had divested itself from fossil fuels. His main point: damaging the oil companies’ profits would send the economy …
Got a CleanTech Business Concept? Send It Along
It’s about time for me to re-offer a free service that I’ve been delivering happily for the last seven years: business plan evaluation. Suppose you have an idea for a cleantech business—anything in renewable energy, electric transportation, smart-grid, energy storage, sustainable …
A Historical Look at Lighting Efficiency
Until the last quarter of the nineteenth Century, the use of electrical power had only a very few functions within American industry and commerce. However, with Thomas Edison’s invention of the first electric light bulb featuring a long-lasting filament in …
Tagged with: 1886 light poles New York City, AuroraGlow Colour Changing LED bulb, electric transportation, energy storage, Historical Look at Lighting Efficiency, lumens per watt of electrical power, negawatt, Renewable Energy, smart grid, Thomas Edison’s invention of the first electric light bulb featuring a long-lasting filament
