Here’s a video on a waste to energy plant in Africa that readers may enjoy. W2E, as it’s sometimes called, is a complicated subject, due to a number of factors: Cleanliness of the technology is a relative matter
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Marrying Cleantech Solutions with Sources of Investment Capital
I want to send you this as a reminder that I’m still in the business of bringing together solid ideas in cleantech (mostly renewable energy) with sources of investment capital.
Attractive Deals Need At Least One Competitive Business Advantage
I thought I’d publish this email I wrote to a colleague whose team I’m trying to connect with one of my clean energy investment opportunities, as I’d like people to know that I do whatever I can to weed out …
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Making the Case for Waste-to-Energy
Here’s a gruesome reminder of the need for waste-to-energy technology. Sometimes the feasibility of plants that extract the chemical energy in municipal solid waste is hard to establish, in cases where the MSW itself isn’t causing problems associated with land …
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Waste-Tire To Energy
If you wanted to invest a few seconds, you could probably count the tires in the pic on the left. I don’t think you’d be so successful with the aerial shot below, however. When I came across this latter photograph …
Waste To Energy
Here’s a discussion on Quora.com that speaks to waste-to-energy (WTE) plants, and why they are not ubiquitous. In addition to the NIMBY principle, which is severe, the real gating factor here is the presence or absence of regulations as to …
The Fossil Fuel Death Grip
Roger Senior writes: New Zealand is probably the only country in the world that could power all its petrol and small diesel vehicles with renewable energy: hydro, wind, geothermal. Also plenty of tidal energy is as yet untapped. But instead …
Does Waste-to-Energy Work? A Simple Question with a Complicated Answer
This article on waste-to-energy is a reminder that there are areas of technology that seem to attract people who have no compunction about exaggerating their claims, among which is WTE. Of course, this is easily understood, as this discipline has …
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“The Hedge Connection” – Bringing Together Investors (“Allocators”) with Hedge Fund Managers
When I write my column for the Hedge Connection’s blog which I call “The Cleantech Deal of the Month,” I try to do so with the sensibilities of the reader in mind. Suppose you’re an “allocator” (neologism for “skilled and trusted …
Waste-Tire To Energy, Fuels
In all candor, my association with the few people who claim to have workable, reliable technology to extract the chemical energy (and other goodies) out of waste-tires has been a disappointment. After several years of work in this arena, I …
