As part of my travels to New York City and Bermuda last week I had the pleasure of meeting clean energy stock legend Bill Paul. There were so many interesting facets to that meeting that I won’t even try to …
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Clean Energy in Algiers and Tripoli
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Clean Energy Will Happen — But Not for the Right Reasons
Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator, and he was removed from power, but it only came to pass because he happened to become the target of the hubris of G.W. Bush. Just as Hussein’s ouster was a good thing …
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Solar Thermal Pioneer – Dr. David Mills
Dr. David Mills, founder and chief scientist of solar thermal leader Ausra, was generous enough with his time to help me with the chapter on concentrated solar power in my upcoming book on renewables. I happened to be watching this …
How Much Variety of Renewables Do We Want?
A reader points out: Craig, you seem to think that there should be a single best solution for clean energy. I would agree with you if you qualified your assertion to state that there is a single best solution for …
Molten Salt Energy Storage
Peter Buzzard comments on my post “Molten Salt Energy Storage” as follows: “That was an interesting article. I didn’t know a combined cycle could be made to be that efficient… What about simply heating water with molten salt in a …
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 …
Molten Salt Energy Storage
In response to my recent piece on solar thermal and molten salt, a reader admonishes: You assume that “molten” salt is universally available over the entire power grid? Get real! Apparently, I’m not describing this as clearly as I thought …
The Wilderness Society and Renewables
Recently, I spoke with Ben Beach, Senior Editor at the Wilderness Society. I reached out to Ben because I wanted to see how the organization was dealing with issue that public land (I presume some of it “wilderness”) is a …
Is Large-Scale Renewable Energy Feasible Right Now?
My old friend Peter Buzzard writes: The current technology of Wind and Solar tends to provide power when and where it is needed the least. The transmission of power from wind and solar farms to population centers is extremely expensive, …
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