Just a quick note to let you know that our project to assemble audio/visual learning aids aimed at renewable energy is complete (for now, at least), and ready for distribution to any young people or newcomers in the subject you …
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Ending Subsidies for Nuclear Power
We speak often about ending the subsidies for Big Oil, in an effort to create a level playing field for renewable energy, and simply to stop transferring wealth from the U.S. tax-payer to the captains of the most profitable industry …
Is Renewable Energy Growing Stronger? It Depends on How You Look At It
EVWorld has a wonderfully encouraging article on renewables that begins: Pop quiz time. The fastest growing energy sector in terms of percentage of growth in the United States between January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2011 was: A) natural gas, B) …
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Video: The Challenges Facing Renewable Energy
Here’s a short video in which I speak about the overall trajectory for integrating large amounts of renewable energy onto the grid. It’s a discussion of my book, Is Renewable Really Doable? on the local cable access channel in Ventura, …
Infographic: The Pros and Cons of Renewable Energy
Whenever I speak on renewable energy, I’m careful to leave my audience with a sense of the “tough realities.” We all want simple answers to our questions, but in the case of clean energy, none exist. There are dozens of …
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Geothermal Systems and GeoExchange Systems – What’s the Difference?
PART ONE General Principles Traditional Geothermal Geothermal technology and GeoExchange technology are often confused with one another in the mind of the public. This confusion is understandable as the term ‘Geothermal’ is often applied to both technologies – even by …
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Infographic – All Forms of Energy on Earth Came from the Big Bang
As a part of our ongoing quest to produce “infographics” that lay out the basics of energy, I invite you to check out the chart here, presenting the notion that all the energy we harness and use here on Earth …
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From Guest Blogger Joshua Okomo: Top Challenges to Develop Green Energy in Africa
Africa faces the greater challenge of energy access, energy availability and energy affordability than all the rest of the world. Assessment undertaken in 2008, Africa was the lowest per capita energy consumer averaging 0.66 tons of oil equivalents (TOE) compared …
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The Basic Renewable Energy Technologies
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgKgc_Oo1fI]As part of my series of basic videos for newcomers on the main renewable energy technologies, I lay out the basic forms of clean energy and say a few words about photovoltaics, solar thermal (aka concentrated solar power or …
Infographic – History of Renewable Energy InfoGraphic
We at 2GreenEnergy are on a quest to introduce the basic concepts of renewable energy to newcomers to the field, and, to that end, we’ve begun to create a series of “infographics,” providing a few essential concepts at a glance. …
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