A gentleman from South Africa asked for my feedback on a new concept in hydrokinetics aimed at capturing energy from ocean currents. I hope a few readers will find my response interesting: Hi, and thanks very much for sharing this …
Tag: Hydrokinetics
Brazilian Run-of-River Hydro Projects
Ironically, of all the renewable energy investment opportunities I like, the one that’s attracting the most interest over the last week or so is my collection of 20-or-so run-of-river hydrokinetics projects in Brazil—despite the World Cup. Apparently, the whole country’s …
Breakthrough Concepts in Clean Energy
As I’ve mentioned, I receive several new clean energy business concepts per week, mostly rooted in proven technology. The scientific mechanisms behind solar, wind, biomass, hydrokinetics and geothermal are all very well-established, and have been for a great period of …
Tagged with: biomass, Breakthrough Concepts in Clean Energy, geothermal, Hydrokinetics, solar energy, Wind Energy
Canada Has No Problem With Renewable Energy
According to a presentation i just watched here at the CleanTechLA conference, there are 65,000 government employees in Canada working on air pollution control. I’m not sure what to make of this. Largely due to their incredible hydro resources, their …
Hydrokinetics and Wind Energy Technologies
I just got off the phone with a fellow trying to raise investment capital for these guys. I bring this up not to ridicule anyone, but to make a point about the energy industry. The main technology featured here is …
Clean Energy "Solutions" Need To Be Economically Competitive
Senior energy analyst Glenn Doty (see Doty Windfuels) and I have been discussing the economic merits of novel approaches to hydrokinetics. Re: my statement that I believed my clean energy business opportunity CycloOcean will provide a reasonable return on investment, …
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Tagged with: American competitiveness and leadership in the 21st Century, clean energy business opportunity, CycloOcean, falling costs of renewables, government subsidize clean energy R&D, Hydrokinetics, novel approaches to hydrokinetics, pricing in the externalities of fossil fuels, senior energy analyst Glenn Doty, skyrocketing costs of nuclear, subsidies to the oil companies, waste-to-energy
Various Approaches To Hydrokinetics
Of the many dozens of articles I’ve written on hydrokinetics over the past four years since the inception of 2GreenEnergy, I’ve expressed a whole bunch of skepticism. Fans of run-of-river need to contend with the fact that, as least as …
Energy Storage, The Power Grid, and Solar Energy
Regarding the suggestion for a huge international effort to develop solar energy, Deon Deetlefs writes on the 2GreenEnergy Facebook page: Always good to see, but when are we going to place more emphasis on the storage of power rather than the …
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New Compressed Air Energy Storage Plant Coming to California
It appears that planet Earth is on its way to its third implementation of CAES (compressed air energy storage) – one of a handful of different technologies that warehouses off-peak energy production and makes it available for times of greater …
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Tagged with: advanced rail, biomass, CAES, compressed air energy storage, Doty Windfuels, flavors of renewables, flywheels, geothermal, grid mix, Hydrokinetics, off-peak energy production, pumped hydro, solar, solar energy, synthetic gasoline and diesel, Thermodynamics, utility-scale installations of PV and solar thermal, variable energy resources, wind, Wind Energy
Clean Energy Investment Opportunities Becoming More Attractive By the Day
This article on fracking reminded me that I haven’t written too much on the subject. For the record, my position is that fracking carries with it serious ecological consequences that we’re sweeping under the rug, and that natural gas does …
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Tagged with: biomass, cheap fossil fuels, Citigroup, clean energy flavors, clean energy investment opportunities, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, fracking, fracking ecological consequences, geothermal, Hydrokinetics, natural gas transition fuel, oil and gas companies, pro-fracking public radio, Renewable Energy, solar energy, transition to clean energy, Wind Energy
