We speak often about ending the subsidies for Big Oil, in an effort to create a level playing field for renewable energy, and simply to stop transferring wealth from the U.S. tax-payer to the captains of the most profitable industry …
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Is Renewable Energy Growing Stronger? It Depends on How You Look At It
EVWorld has a wonderfully encouraging article on renewables that begins: Pop quiz time. The fastest growing energy sector in terms of percentage of growth in the United States between January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2011 was: A) natural gas, B) …
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Integrating Large Amounts of Wind Power Onto the Grid
I wrote a piece a few months ago on nay-sayers to wind, in which I pointed out that the UK’s Duke of Edinburgh just may be the king. In it, I noted: Here in the U.S., we have climate change …
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Tagged with: Doty Windfuels, Duke of Gloucester, energy storage, nay-sayers to wind, synthetic fuels, Wind Energy, wind power
Island Nations Are a Good Fit for Renewable Energy
Don Harmon of LiFeBatt, a long-time 2GreenEnergy reader, writes in about my recent video on clean energy: Good interview. We are currently working on a project in the Caribbean Islands for solar and wind generation. The islands are a very …
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The Pros and Cons of Wind Power
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQENswF5QQ0&w=500&h=284] Here’s a short video I made explaining the basics of wind energy for young people, or newcomers to the subject. I explain why the wind blows, offer a brief history of man’s attempts to harness wind energy, and …
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Infographic: The Pros and Cons of Renewable Energy
Whenever I speak on renewable energy, I’m careful to leave my audience with a sense of the “tough realities.” We all want simple answers to our questions, but in the case of clean energy, none exist. There are dozens of …
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Wind Energy — Playing a Role in Distributed Generation
When we think of wind energy, we generally think of those multi-megawatt farms in western Texas, the plains states, and California. Conversely, when we think of solar PV, we normally conjure images of “distributed generation” — “DG” for short — …
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Living Small — A Christmas Gift for Planet Earth
To wrap our wits around where we truly are as a species and who we need to be to avoid the brunt of the catastrophes heading our way in the 21st Century, let’s observe: How do we actually behave with …
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Electric Vehicles and CO2 Emission Abatement
Frequent commenter Glenn Doty writes: What would really be nice is an infographic comparing the cost of mitigating CO2 with various alternatives… just to put the different alternatives into proper perspective. For instance, how much more does it cost to …
Tagged with: addiction to oil, alternative energy, clean energy, CO2 emission abatement, Electric Vehicles, empowering terrorists, energy storage, evolution to EVs, evolution to renewables, EVs, Glenn Doty, global climate change, green energy, lung disease, national security, ocean acidication, Renewable Energy, smart grid, solar energy, solar panels, solar power, Wind Energy, wind power, wind turbines, Windfuels
Renewable Energy in Europe
I’ll be in Europe from April 26th through May 10th, 2012, attending conferences, meeting colleagues known to me now only through Skype, and conducting interviews for my third book, “Renewable Energy – Following the Money.” In fact, including a robust …
Tagged with: alternative energy, Champs Elysees, clean energy, consultants and industry analysts, entrepreneurs, Europe, executives in automotive, executives in energy, green energy, investor, leaders in government, Paris, Renewable Energy, renewable energy in Europe, Wind Energy, wind power, wind turbines
