A lot of water has gone under the bridge since the launch of 2GreenEnergy almost exactly 10 years ago. From the perspective of solar, we saw: Lots of promise for solar thermal (aka concentrated solar power or CSP)
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Geothermal Costs Coming Down, Along with All Others Flavors of Renewable Energy
Gary Tulie, who made huge contributions to Bullish on Renewable Energy, points out, “One of the technologies discussed was Spallation Drilling (pictured) – a technique for speeding up drilling through hard rock for use in geothermal projects. The use of …
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Neither You Nor I Know What the Future of the Energy Industry Looks Like
Don’t we all chuckle to ourselves when we hear people explain what the energy industry is going to be like in the year 2100? Our world changes so fast today—and that rate of change is only accelerating—that it makes very …
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Can Solar Thermal Compete in the Pantheon of Renewable Energy “Flavors?”
I took a nice hike with a friend last weekend, during which we had lots of time to talk about the important issues of the day; we’re out there long enough that there is no reason to rush from one …
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Engineering-related Internship at 2GreenEnergy
I just had a conversation with a college engineering student looking to do an internship at 2GreenEnergy. I sure hope this works out, as it’s a terrific “win-win-win,” as I like to call it: a) 2GreenEnergy gets more high-quality content, …
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Rethinking the Sustainable Generation and Consumption of Electricity
As this article suggests, everywhere one looks in the new energy industry one finds references to disruptive technologies, not only in the various “flavors” of renewable energy, but in the basic ways in which electricity is delivered. Take DG (distributed …
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