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)
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Westinghouse Bankruptcy Shakes The Nuclear World – Forbes
My old friend from high school, Bruce Wilson, now a practitioner of LEED certified building construction, sent me this piece on the Westinghouse bankruptcy and what it means to the nuclear industry. I respond: I have to think the author is …
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CBS’s Leslie Stahl’s Viewpoint on CleanTech and Climate Disruption? That Depends–Who’ll Write the Biggest Check?
Less than a year ago, CBS aired a “60 Minutes” segment hosted by Leslie Stahl, whose mission was to convince tens of millions of credulous, uninformed viewers that cleantech was a failure, and they, as taxpayers, had been fleeced. Now …
Dealing With the Public Relations Campaign Against Renewable Energy Is No Picnic
I think I’ve mentioned my quest to find a strategic partner for my client in New Zealand whose breakthrough in solar thermal hot water heating promises such excellent potential. I’ve enjoyed this project thoroughly, and I’ve turned up some really …
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Global Cleantech Venture Investment Dips 33% to $6.45 Billion
Yesterday I spent an hour taking in a terrific webinar from the Cleantech Group, conducted by what I’m sure must have been one of its most senior consultants, Sheeraz Haji, who ably walked us through some of the 2012 numbers …
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Discussion on Renewable Energy, Externalities, Sustainability, Etc.
Here’s a conversation I’m having with a friend that readers may find interesting: Craig: I said something that I regret in our talk on the phone yesterday. In particular, I said that “clean coal doesn’t exist.” As a broad fact, …
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“No More Solyndras” Act Passes the US House of Representatives
Here’s the main reason I couldn’t get within a million miles of an elected position in the US: I wouldn’t vote for the political grandstanding represented by legislation like the “No More Solyndras” Act. I wouldn’t be a part of …
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ARPA-E and Stimulus Money for Cleantech
Here’s a good article in The Atlantic on the ARPA-E, the mechanism the federal government uses for dispensing stimulus money for clean (and not-so-clean) energy projects. It’s based on an interview of veteran Time Magazine writer Michael Grunwald, whose book …
When Politics Gets in the Way of Sane Energy Policy
I suppose I should have seen this coming, but the traditional energy industry, apparently starting to feel the heat, has recently ratcheted up the volume of its ongoing public relations efforts against the renewables industry. I had a wonderful conversation …
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Clean Energy Is Good, Exploiting It Isn’t
At the risk of stating the obvious, there have been huge mistakes made in governments’ promotion of renewables. But who should be surprised by that? Just because clean energy is a good thing doesn’t mean that there won’t be bad …
