Thanks to my friends at the Tennessee Solar Energy Center for their kind words, and for redistributing my recent article Energy Policy — Looking for the Broad Side of the Barn. They write: “TSEA has been following Craig Shields, blogger …
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Castle Energy Offers Solar Power On The East Coast
It’s always a thrill when people I’ve known since my childhood grasp the opportunities that renewables represent. When my brother Geoff and I were teenagers, we had a fine friend, JR Castle (James Rutherford, if I’m not mistaken), who came …
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Clean Energy’s Low-Hanging Fruit
Frequent commenter Larry Lemmert waxes metaphorical with the respect to our clean energy targets: We need to go after the low-hanging fruit before climbing the tree and going out on a limb to harvest energy that has a negative payback …
Solar Photovoltaics in Small Model House
Tomorrow my daughter and I will spend the afternoon on a project for her science class at school: building a model house whose electrical power is delivered with solar photovoltaics. I have a small solar panel that (I believe) will …
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The Value of the NegaWatt
I had a lovely phone chat last evening with a young lady, a high school senior who was working on a paper for school and wanted to ask a few questions about solar energy. In particular, she wanted to know …
The Health of the Solar Photovoltaics Industry
Here’s a good article on the solar photovoltaics industry by consulting giant McKinsey and Company. Not to give anything away, but they share my belief that the PV industry is in a momentary lull, not a swan song. Best of …
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From Guest Blogger Alia Haley: 7 Ways Homeowners Can Power Their Homes with Renewable Energy
You can see lots of attention is focused towards alternative and renewable energy systems. This is due to the soaring energy costs and the need to decrease the climate change effects over earth. Though these solutions may seem complicated for …
Tagged with: alternative energy, biomass combustion boilers, energy investment, geothermal heating, global climate change, global warming, hydrogen fuel cells, micro hydro energy systems, Renewable Energy, soaring energy costs, solar energy, solar hot water, solar panels, solar power, Solar Thermal, wind turbines
From Guest Blogger Brian McGowan: Solar Cooking — Because I Can
For amusement only…. Today I cooked mashed potatoes in my solar oven. The oven is made of one of those shiny windshield shades, a rack from an old countertop oven, a very large clear plastic pretzel container and a 2lb …
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Where We’re Going In Clean Energy
Here’s an article that gets to a couple of important points that are illustrative of where we are and where we’re going in clean energy. • Financing solar photovoltaics. There is no doubt that homeowners would be more likely to invest …
Solar Energy and Shellfish Farming?
When I was much younger I recall telling a friend that if I had to live the rest of my life on exactly three foodstuffs, I would select oysters, mangoes, and beer. Of course, that was before I developed a …
