Frequent commenter Garth writes: Remember ANY successful business that runs a supply line for their product must have storage or they face shortages and customer loss – energy is no different and storage is the answer. I just can’t explain …
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Energy Conference in The Netherlands Uses The Term "Breakthrough" In a BIG Way
One of my colleagues is speaking at the Breakthrough Energy Conference in The Netherlands in a couple of weeks. When I spoke with him earlier today, I asked him what “breakthrough energy” means in this context, thinking that it must …
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Are You a Good Candidate for an Electric Vehicle? BMW Has the Answer
I think we all understand that the smart phone is going to play a huge role in how we transport our bodies and our cargo in the future. Here’s a somewhat obvious prelude to all this: an app by BMW that …
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From Guest Blogger Karen Boyarsky: The Five Worst Cars for the Environment
Every year, GreenerCars.org releases a list of cars that are rated according to their Green Score. While many potential car buyers look to this list for environmentally-sound automobile choices, we thought it would be more entertaining to peruse the list …
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Vanderbilt University Students Look At Eos Energy Storage
As promised, I just did a phone interview for three engineering majors at Vanderbilt University who are studying the target market for our client Eos Energy Storage. We discussed the various ways in which this breakthrough in zinc-air batteries could …
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Tagged with: distributed generation, electric transportation, Electric Vehicles, Eos Energy Storage, EVs, getting rid of coal, green transportation, integrating renewables intot he grid-mix, micro-grids, power utilities, solar energy, solar power, sustainability, sustainable energy policy, Vanderbilt University, Wind Energy, wind power, zinc-air batteries
Island Nations Need Renewable Energy, Low-speed Electric Vehicles
I’m often asked for my advice about bringing electric transportation to island nations. Readers may recall that I’ve spent a fair chunk of time investigating this subject on behalf of Bermuda. Here, I write back to a friend who’s working …
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Electric Vehicles and Coal-Fired Power Plants
On my piece on EVs earlier today, my friend Tom Konrad of AltEnergyStocks.com writes: Given the extra demand from a large number of EVs, how will the utilities supply the extra power? (This could be anything, not just renewables or …
The Migration to Electric Transportation — It's Complicated
Here’s an overly simplistic article that questions the validity of electric vehicles as “green” transportation on the basis that coal is used to charge EVs. And here is one of the comments: “I power my electric car totally from solar …
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Urban Commuter Electric Vehicles
I have every confidence that the next decade will see the introduction of numerous kinds of urban commuter electric vehicles that shatter the paradigm of the automobile as we know it now. For obvious reasons, the auto companies – and …
From Guest-Blogger Jessy: 5 YouTube Channels for Eco-Friendly Car Buyers
YouTube is continuing its work in replacing television for casual viewing as it pushes into every imaginable niche, allowing users to find the video content they want with an exactness not previously possible, and taking mere seconds to do it. …
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