I just posted a piece to Renewable Energy World, in which I recollect my encounters in airports with other college-aged kids of the 1970s who were vigorously gathering support for nuclear energy. I recall how one self-satisfied young fellow quipped, …
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[The Vector] India’s Clean Energy Potential – Continued
(Continued from an earlier article…) Bill Gates emphasized to policymakers in Washington D.C. the importance of the H-1B visa to companies like Microsoft. “…They celebrate the fact that we’re kicking them out after giving them the world’s best education,“ said …
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Fukushima: Some Enlightened Ideas, Some Moronic
Understandably, accompanying the situation in Fukushima is a flurry of discussion of renewable energy. And, where some of that conversation shows a great deal of sophistication and enlightenment, some of it does not. I was amused by Fred Upton’s (R- …
[The Vector] India’s Green Energy Potential
India is on the rise in the green energy domain. The country increased its total capacity from 2% in 2003 to 10% by 2010. The market for renewable energy and related technologies and businesses is growing by 25% per year, …
[The Vector] – Clean Energy Job Report – Continued
..continued from an earlier article Manufacturing has been on the decline for decades. Manufacturing jobs have shrunk 21% between 1998 and 2007. This has left workers in need of jobs and states in need of new industries. As a case …
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Let’s Change the Way We Treat Home Renewable Energy Systems as Financial Assets
A reader asks for advice re: insurance companies’ treatment of computerized electricity systems (CES). Craig, Can you help me find a way to get insurance companies to give policy discounts for the new CES panel that is on the market? …
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Guest Blogger Jack: Eliminate Burnable Fuels
We need to come up with a very powerful argument for renewable energy that eliminates need for ALL burnable fuels. My wife and I have asthma. She’s had it all her life. I’ve only developed it in my late 70s. …
[The Vector] — Clean Energy Jobs – Continued
…continued from earlier Shifts Within the Industry Pew’s researchers say that because scientific research, public policy, market forces, the economic recovery and new technology drive innovation and competition, leading sectors in today’s clean energy economy may not be so …
Skyfuel — Breakthrough Cost Reduction in Solar Thermal
If you check out this little press release on Skyfuel’s new 50-megawatt parabolic trough solar thermal plant 400 kilometers east of Beijing, you’ll see why I favor this technology (concentrating solar power/CSP) as the future of clean energy. The company …
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[The Vector] Follow up to The World Future Energy Summit
As reported by The Vector on January 17th, the World Future Energy Summit recently drew together world policy makers, international business leaders, energy providers, and educators into a fast-paced conference in Abu Dhabi. The Zayed Future Energy Prize for innovation …
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