Is cold fusion legitimate science, or a hoax? Wally Rippel believes the former. When we electrolyze heavy water, i.e., water made of deuterium and oxygen, in the presence of a palladium electrode, we wind up with more energy that we …
Wally Rippel – "Cold Fusion is Legitimate Science" Read More »
Echelon’s Steve Ngyuen, the fellow I interviewed for my book’s chapter on intelligent building management, spent a few minutes describing “light harvesting” to me — the idea of making use of the sun’s light the way buildings are designed, thus …
Daylighting Collaborative and Intelligent Building Design Read More »
I had a chance conversation with Nick Roberts, VP Sales of GlobalNES recently – a company in renewables that boasts an interesting angle. GlobalNES offers to arrange financing for, engineer, and install a range of commercial-sized clean energy systems – …
Unique Approach to Renewables Contracting – Global NES Read More »
In the process of writing my book on renewables I read quite a few others, including Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air (2009) by Dr. David JC MacKay. This is a fanstically worthwhile project by a professor of physics …
The Ammonia Fuel Network’s Executive Direct John Holbrook was good enough to send me a few DVD’s in which Bill Leighty made presentations on the numbers that surround ammonia a fuel. I was struck by a number of things. First, …
Ammonia Fuel Network — Great Presentation on Energy Storage and Transmission Read More »
Like hydrogen as a fuel, liquid ammonia is a carrier of energy, as opposed to a source of energy. When we create ammonia out of nitrogen and hydrogen, we add energy to form a compound that can later be broken …
In response to my complaint about Deloitte’s recent market research study on electric vehicles in which it was clear (to me at least) that they had surveyed irrelevant people as thus missed the mark with their conclusions, a gentleman named …
I want to call readers’ attention to 2GreenEnergy Associates Bill Paul’s report: The Top Twenty Takeover Candidates among Publicly Traded Alternative Energy Companies Headquartered in the U.S. As I’ve mentioned, speaking with Bill Paul really is like drinking from a …
The other day, I wrote a short post on Renewable Energy World extolling the virtues of concentrated solar power, and predicting that CSP would someday (probably in my grandchildren’s lifetimes) dominate the landscape of world energy production. Almost immediately, someone …
TV’s talking heads seem to think that wind and solar power are the answer to reducing America’s oil usage. How stupid can they be? Wind and solar make electricity, which won’t be ready to power large numbers of motor vehicles for …
After Gulf Oil Spill, Focus Should be On Biofuels Read More »
