From the perspective of energy, everything you need to know about the French-owned island of Guadalupe in the Caribbean is that it’s making terrific progress in replacing its legacy power resource, diesel, with geothermal. The world leader in geothermal, Ormat …
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Geothermal: Making Progress in Tough Terrain (figuratively and literally)
The most obvious feature of the current status of renewable energy generally is the plummeting cost of solar PV and wind energy. Yet, given this, it’s refreshing to see that geothermal is still very much a part of the mainstream …
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US Federal Government Subsidies for the Oil Companies
A reader brings up the ongoing squabble of the size of the subsidies the US taxpayer bestows upon the fossil fuel companies each year. Not surprisingly, those sympathetic to Big Oil like to dispute the numbers proffered by clean energy …
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Island Nations Turn to Geothermal
Island nations generally find themselves in a very interesting position with respect to energy generation. In particular, they certainly don’t want dirty fossil fuel plants, normally burning bunker diesel shipped in at great cost, both financially and environmentally. But …
Good News in Geothermal
With all the buzz in the renewable energy arena swirling around the ever-increasing cost-effectiveness of solar and wind, many of the other flavors of clean energy go wanting for attention. Geothermal, the form of energy that uses the heat from …
People Who Favor the Migration to Renewable Energy Have Big Hearts–But Sometimes Impractical Ideas
I’m in close communication with the World Business Academy, a Santa Barbara, CA-based non-profit dedicated to the migration to 100% renewable energy. I urge readers to check out their website and form their own opinions. They often ask me to …
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Viewpoints on the Migration to Renewable Energy
A colleague writes: Just finished Facts and Fantasies. Very informative, very readable. I dog-eared a bunch of pages to come back to later for reference. I’ll tackle “Doable” this week and eventually we’ll have a discussion about them. I suspect …
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Is Cold Fusion Real?
A colleague asks for my viewpoint on low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR, aka cold fusion). I wrote: It’s funny you ask, as my belief has changed over the last few years. If you will read the short chapter on the subject …
Top Renewable Energy Author Available to Discuss Key Industry Trends, Climate Change, Sustainability
If you are looking for an expert to interpret news on energy and the environment, educate within a documentary, or add a sustainable point of view to media interviews, you may want to include Craig Shields in the discussion. Craig …
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Adventures in Ocean Hydrokinetics
I had a nice chat with my brother yesterday during which he asked my opinion of a company called Hydro Alternative Energy (HAE). Looking at their website just now, I notice they write: (Ocean) currents can be thought of as …
