In the year 2009, the year 2GreenEnergy was launched, the world of renewable energy had high hopes for the technology shown at left. At the time, solar thermal had a huge advantage over competitive approaches to clean power, in particular, …
We will be hearing about niche applications of renewable energy until hell freezes over, and I have no problem with that. Having said that, I do object to developers of these technologies who claim that energy that is extracted from …
It’s amazing that both the homeowner and the architect thought that a design, built as it is around stubbing toes, was a solid idea. This is the advice I give people who want to build energy generation systems centered around …
There’s No Law That Says You Can’t Do It, But Why? Read More »
Here’s a little piece of renewable energy fraud that I thought readers might enjoy. It relies on people’s abundant ignorance of solar thermal itself (aka concentrated solar power/CSP), a technology that has been around for decades, and is struggling to …
What Thomas Edison said here in the 1880s is a reminder that all this could have gone another way; i.e., the entire environmental mess in which we find ourselves today could have been avoided. Of course, before solar PV and …
A lot of water has gone under the bridge since the launch of 2GreenEnergy almost exactly 10 years ago. From the perspective of solar, we saw: Lots of promise for solar thermal (aka concentrated solar power or CSP)
When I wrote Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies in 2010, solar thermal (aka concentrated solar power or CSP) was a big deal, largely because of the way it readily lent itself to solving the intermittency issue via energy storage as heat, …
When we kicked off 2GreenEnergy in the summer of 2009, I (wrongly) predicted that solar thermal, aka concentrated solar power (CSP) would soon come to dominate the field of renewable energy, largely because of the way it lends itself to …
Whether we realize it or not, one of the greatest threats in the world today is climate change. Leon Billings and Thomas Jorling, widely regarded pioneers of the “Golden Age” of environmental policy, state, “Today, there is a widely accepted …
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As we sit here in mid-2016, there are two camps in the overall migration to renewable energy: those who say it can’t be done, and those in the process of doing it. Here’s an article about a team that operates …
