I serve as a “mentor” to the presenters at the Clean Business Investment Summit. First up this morning was a portable solar PV/battery product, a concept that has merit in certain specific market segments. Principally I think of disaster relief, …
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Accepting Responsibility For Our Broken Energy Policy
We’ve had discussions recently on the amount of subsidies that the fossil fuel industries receive from the federal government here in the U.S. To be sure, there is a great deal of hanky-panky played with these numbers. Let me go …
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Electric Transportation and Solar Energy
A reader asked that I comment on this fairly euphoric piece, suggesting that the world economy can and will be revived with the aggressive adoption of electric transportation and photovoltaics. Here are a few bits and pieces of my reaction. …
Tagged with: adoption of electric transportation, Amory Lovins, burning coal, coal-fired power plants, corn ethanol, electric transportation, Electric Vehicles, energy storage, EV consumer value proposition, EVs, externalities, externalities of fossil fuels, fossil fuels, fracking, Jeremy Rifkin, lowest-cost baseload power, nuclear renaissance, oil companies, oil pipelines, our home planet, production tax credit, PV, smart grid, solar energy, solar power, subsidies for the oil companies, using energy more wisely, using less energy, V2G, vehicle-to-grid, Wind Energy, wind power, world economy
Renewable Energy and Fossil Fuels – a Clash of the Titans
I had the pleasure to interview the president of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) for my next book project (“Renewable Energy – Following the Money”) just now. Dennis McGinn (pictured here, second from left) is a retired vice admiral …
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Transportation's New Paradigm for the 21st Century
I had lunch today with David Raney, one of the most accomplished professionals in the automotive industry. About a month ago, I had introduced 2GreenEnergy transportation guru Dan Sturges to him, and I thought it would be a good idea …
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Tagged with: 21st Century transportation, alternative fuel vehicles, automotive industry, car ownership, car-sharing, Dan Sturges, David Raney, diesel, ecological consequences, ecology, Electric Vehicles, environment, EVs, fossil fuels, Future of Transportation, gasoline, mass transit, new paradigm for transportation, oil companies, ride-sharing, sustainability, urban congestion, walking and bicycling
The Abundance of Natural Gas Is a Double-Edged Sword
The newfound abundance of natural gas carries with it a few main issues, some good, some bad, which I abbreviate as follows: 1) Good news: It holds the potential to lessen the cost and environmental impact of our energy consumption …
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From Guest Blogger Jess Greenberg: Alternative Energy — Bringing Solutions to Residential Power Problems
Everyone knows that there is a limited supply of fossil fuel left on Earth and this may pose a big problem in the future. This issue is not only a major concern for the big corporations and businesses, but is …
Why Renewable Energy Is Slow in Replacing Fossil Fuels
Many of us are scratching our heads, wondering how it’s possible that renewable energy, for all its merits, could be so slow to replace fossil fuels. As outlined in this article on Chesapeake Energy (our second largest natural gas producer), the …
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Tagged with: Chesapeake Energy, Chesapeake pays 1% income tax, clean energy, fossil fuels, level playing field, remove the subsidies for fossil fuels, Renewable Energy, renewable energy job creation, renewable energy job growth, replacing fossil fuels, subsidies for fossil fuels, subsidies for oil companies
Big Energy Loves U.S. Supreme Court Decision "Citizens United"
Duke Brooks writes on Independent Vermont senator Citizens United opponent Bernie Sanders as follows: Sanders is, of course, not an independent. He is, IN FACT, a self-described socialist…. The opposition to Citizens United (granting corporations the right to spend as much …
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Clean Energy Under Attack
As I’m sure you’re aware, clean energy is under attack from the traditional energy industry; the oil and coal companies are spending a fortune on their PR firms and lobbyists to discredit the competition, i.e., renewable energy. And unfortunately, this …
Tagged with: Acore, alternative energy, American Council on Renewable Energy, clean energy, clean energy under attack, coal companies, Department of Energy, DoE, energy industry, energy myth-busters, EnergyFactCheck.org, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, fossil fuels, lobbyists, oil companies, public relations firms, Renewable Energy
