In a piece I wrote yesterday on clean energy power density, I mentioned that renewable resources do, in fact, come with a number of limitations, owing mainly to the fact that the infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light we receive at ground level from …
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High Voltage Direct Current Transmission
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ABB's Breakthrough Could Be Critical to Smart-grid
When I was a marketing consultant to the Fortune-sized IT and industrial giants, I was proud to count Switzerland-based ABB on my client list. Having said that, the company was founded in the 19th Century, and had a reputation as a stodgy, …
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Power Transmission is a Real Problem for Renewable Energy
I like to post articles on Renewable Energy World, as they have pretty decent traffic among people interested in a wide range of clean energy topics. Today, I commented on Stephen Lacey’s piece Is the Transmission ‘Problem’ Real? in which I …
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More Bad News from the US Supreme Court
Earlier this week I wrote a post expressing my disgust over the US Supreme Court’s announcement that it had found major provisions of campaign finance reform to be unconstitutional. This paved the way for corporate and union money to mute …
How Much Variety of Renewables Do We Want?
A reader points out: Craig, you seem to think that there should be a single best solution for clean energy. I would agree with you if you qualified your assertion to state that there is a single best solution for …
Offshore Wind Farms
In this quite lucid and compelling video on offshore wind farms, The Sierra Club points out the numerous benefits of this technology. Until I watched it, I was unaware that turbines could be 12 miles offshore, and that the continental …
