One of the exciting things nowadays is that there are so many exciting developments in the energy arena, many of them suggesting the promise of a breakthrough that could help change the world to something better. Sweden’s Global Sun Engineering is pursuing just such an opportunity. Their Matarenki Light is a tracking system, with mirrors […]
Search Results for cpv
Energy COOL: Combined Solar Thermal / PhotoVoltaiic Power (CSTP/CPV)
November 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: Energy · energy cool · solar · Solar Energy
“Basically means no windows …”
July 15th, 2020 · Comments Off on “Basically means no windows …”
Amid his Rose Garden ranting against (soon to be President) Joe Biden yesterday, Trump went after Biden’s Build Back Better powerful Clean Energy plan. Evincing his normal shallow ignorance and gaslighting bravado, Trump fumbled through fossil-foolish talking points. Amid this, Trump attacked Biden’s call for a move toward net zero buildings. Of course the facts […]
Tags: Donald Trump · Trump · Trump Administration
Solar Power: A Concentrated Path Forward
October 29th, 2018 · 2 Comments
Looking back a decade, solar photovoltaiic (PV) prices were over 20 cents per kilowatt hour (kwh), uncertainty existed as to polysilicon pricing (one of the reasons why Solyndra, potentially, seemed to make sense if silicon prices wouldn’t drop), and the future seemed extremely bright for concentrated solar power (CSP) leveraging solar power for heat to […]
Tags: Energy · solar · Solar Energy
Energy BOOKSHELF: Emancipate Slaves, End Climate Change?
March 25th, 2017 · Comments Off on Energy BOOKSHELF: Emancipate Slaves, End Climate Change?
Head-slapping moments liberate intellectually. A weltanschauung shifting moment is powerful, especially that sudden light bulb over the head event which seems so self-evident in retrospect. Slavery fosters pollution Slavers are operating outside the law already and thus typically have utter disdain for any form of environmental regulation and/or protection. Slavers are despoiling humans for profit, why […]
Tags: energy bookshelf · environmental · environmental justice
Solar on the car, not the road …
March 8th, 2017 · Comments Off on Solar on the car, not the road …
The pace of global change accelerates with each passing year. Energy systems — which tend, even amid revolution (wood to coal, coal to oil, …), to change slowly — are struggling, globally, to adapt to how that pace of change is accelerating within them as well. Globalization combined with information technology reach combined with materials […]
Tags: Energy · solar · transportation
A window for thinking about “the” military and climate change … and the importance of careful discussions
December 6th, 2011 · 3 Comments
Too often, people point to statements and actions by civilian leadership to state “the military” thinks this or that about energy and climate issues. While the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) spoke of climate change as a national security issue, the QDR is always a highly political document driven by civilian (political appointee) leadership even with […]
Tags: 2008 Presidential Election · 2012 Presidential Election · 746 · Abu Dhabi · advertising · climate change · climate delayers · government energy policy
Decoding Bush Deceptions re Climate Change
April 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Yet again, George the W has graced our television screens. Yet again, George the W has peddled truthiness masquerading as serious policy concepts. Yet again, George the W is at work to undermine American and Global security and prosperity. Yet again …
Tags: Energy · environmental · politics
Energy COOL: SolFocus and Three Critical Rs
March 10th, 2008 · 3 Comments
When it comes to the fundamentals of education, there are the “three Rs”: Reading, wRiting, aRithmetic. Environmentalism’s Three Rs: Reduce use; Reuse things; Recycle as much as possible. And, for energy, there are these Three Rs: Reduce use (via efficiency and conservation); Renewable power as much as possible; Remediate for any use of non-renewable power […]
Tags: electricity · Energy · Solar Energy