I hope you can make this month’s webinar, in which we’ll be covering a terrific new idea that could make a real difference in the integration of renewables onto the grid-mix. Electrons, of course, have no color, nor do they …
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23ZbWSSBoIE] Here’s a few minutes of video on a business plan I really love. It’s a breakthrough in concentrated solar power, or CSP, aka solar thermal energy, made by a guy I’ve met and come to know and trust. …
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I had the pleasure of meeting Michael Pesin of the local power utility up here in Northwestern Washington State: Seattle City Light, at the launch of my client EV4’s new product, the “Energy Transfer Merchant.” I thought this conversation was …
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May I ask you a favor? I was in the process of editing the transcripts of the interviews I’ve conducted for my next book on renewable energy, when I realized: I don’t have a title that I really like. I …
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I’m trying to come fully up to speed on a few of the areas of chemistry and physics that are most germane to renewable energy and electric transportation. Though I studied all this stuff at a certain level when I …
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I was disappointed to learn that the gigawatt solar project in Blythe, CA decided to switch from CSP to PV. The issue, at least on the surface, is “bankability,” i.e., maturity of the technology, along with the obvious fact that …
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MR2auHp7P8] Here’s a summary of a business plan that would implement a unique approach to thermal anaerobic gasification, to extract the energy from biomass without creating harmful (carcinogenic) byproducts. I find it interesting that many of these clean energy …
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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5DCsyoTejs] Here, I summarize a business plan that contemplates the development of synthetic fuels from off-peak wind, water, and CO2. This is exciting stuff, as it uses entirely proven chemical processes, the thermodynamics make sense, and the demand to …
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzOyhqJA7AQ]Here’s a summary of a business plan in which an entrepreneur hopes to implement compressed air energy storage (CAES) in conjunction with a set of wind farms. CAES shows some promise as an energy storage solution, though considerable work …
The 4th annual Solar Electric Power Association’s (SEPA) ranking have been recently published. SEPA tracks and analyzes solar electicity markets in the U.S. The growth measured in the last year has been impressive: the 2010 top ten ranked utilities integrated …
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