Here’s part of an invitation to one of the most important annual conferences on CSP (concentrated solar power, aka solar thermal): Whilst Spain has been a strong driving force for the CSP industry worldwide with more than 20 years’ experience …
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The list of clean energy business plans I support has reached 22 items in length – an all-time record. Each of these, in my estimation, represents a real breakthrough that clearly has the potential to make a huge impact on …
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I just met the CFO of SolarReserve, one of the top players in CSP (concentrated solar power, aka solar thermal). This hasn’t been a good couple of years for CSP; it’s been a time in which the price of both natural …
Tomorrow night marks the start of a trip out of town for me. I’ll be headed to San Francisco for a couple of meetings, including coffee with my friend Fareed Sfard, CEO of solar thermal start-up Ahura Energy. Then it’s …
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 …
Here’s a good article on a recently completed solar thermal tower (aka concentrated solar power or CSP) in the desert between Las Vegas and Reno, NV. The thing to like about solar thermal, as we’ve often discussed here, is that …
Here’s an interview with 2GreenEnergy Associate Agostinho Miguel Garcia, who’s working on a very interesting solar thermal (concentrated solar power / CSP) project in Namibia – a country whose conditions are perfect for CSP. Agostinho’s headquartered in Lisbon, but works …
I’ve often written about how astonishingly little of the Earth’s surface needs to be covered in a solar collecting technology, e.g., solar thermal, in order to provide 100% of the world’s energy needs. Linked above is a wonderful graphic that …
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Here’s another in our ongoing series of infographics, designed to offer young people and clean energy newcomers an accessible introduction to the subject. Here, we provide an objective look at the “pros and cons” of solar. While we advocate in …
It’s the birthday of Alexander Graham Bell, whose telephone came as the accidental consequence of his interest in developing a tool that might teach deaf people how to speak. To me, it’s another reminder that accidental discoveries are extremely common. …
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