2GreenEnergy reader Rebecca asks: When you’re approached by budding inventors or experienced ones, how do you manage to filter out those who are true and honest from those who are a sham? Good question. It’s not something that can be …
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Clean Energy's Bad Ideas
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A Career in Clean Energy? Here’s Some Advice
Each week I receive several emails requesting my advice on career paths within the clean energy space. I thought I’d take a few minutes and jot down a few of the ideas that I normally try to express in response. …
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Sustainability — It’s About Physics, not Politics
A reader whose political sensibilities obviously do not parallel those in “The Story of Stuff” writes in: As for “Stuff,” I don’t doubt that most of what [Annie Leonard] says is true and it certainly is deplorable, but I missed …
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Renewable Energy — Facts and Fantasies: Tales from Launch Day
A funny thing happened when we launched Renewable Energy Facts and Fantasies last week. Of course, I was hoping it would do well in the categories to which Amazon.com had assigned it: energy, engineering, and physics. And while it went …
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An Engineer Comments on "Renewable Energy and Basic Physics"
My friend Geoffrey Nicholson comments my post “Renewable Energy and Basic Physics”: Craig, I couldn’t agree more. Other than geothermal energy, all the other sources of energy available to us originally came from solar energy and with a rather lossy …
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Renewable Energy and Basic Physics
My old friend Peter Buzzard commented on my post “Molten Salt Energy Storage“: “Craig, do you know if a Stirling engine would be more efficient than making steam for a turbine?” To which I reply: I don’t know know much …
Renewables and Cutting-Edge Physics
Given the realities of our time, most of us are short-term focused – even those in renewable energy R&D. We tend to want to know what can we do NOW to lower our carbon footprint and lessen our dependence on …
OK, the Conservation of Energy Isn't a "Law." But Can I See a Working Model of a Counter-Example?
Steele Braden responds: I know this is hard for us guys schooled in the “old” physics thinking, but the longer I investigate and experiment, the more anomalies I turn up regarding accepted physics “laws.” Remember, it was impossible for man …
