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Don't forget the SAP webinar tomorrow
Check out this week's SAP webinar where folks will be discussing the economic stimulus package and what it means for different sectors.Here are the questions I'd like answered: The stimulus is touted as an engine for creating jobs. Yet, the cost per job created seems quite high (e.g., $160,000 per job in renewable and clean energy [page...[read more]
Electricity 2.0 Primer
I'm giving a talk at the O'Reilly ETech conference in San Jose next month (March 11th 2009). The title of my talk is "Electricity 2.0: Applying The Lessons Of The Web To Our Energy Networks". The talk will be about how to make the electrical distribution system more green and more resilient using demand response and smart...[read more]
Electrify Your Ride
How Cost, Consumers, and Infrastructure Will Shape the Next-Generation Car Originally presented September 24, 2008, 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific Hybrid-electric vehicles have gone from novelty to necessity as gas prices have gone through the roof, but experts predict the revolution is just beginning. How close is that minivan in...[read more]
Register Now for Our Fall Webinar Series!
The Energy Collective Fall Webinar Series is upon us! Register now to listen in and pose questions to our knowledgable panelists, drawn from inside our community and beyond.We kick things off on Wednesday, September 24th with a discussion of electrified transportation hosted by our own Tyler Hamilton, reporter and energy columnist for...[read more]
Scenario planning for the sustainability revolution
We've scheduled one last webinar this year in Natural Logic's Carbon Neutral Learning™ webinar series. In two weeks, futurist Jamais Cascio will discuss Green Tomorrows, and lead a stimulating exploration of how the sustainability revolution will transform our politics, our economics and our lives. The process of building a...[read more]
"Coming to Grips with Carbon" webinar series
Speaking of carbon (2): Natural Logic has just announced "Coming to Grips with Carbon," a four-part webinar series (produced by Stacey Marvel) on ""How to Measure and Reduce Your Carbon Footprint." I'll be hosting the entire series, and will be joined by some of the best in the business. Here's the agenda and presenters:Session 1:...[read more]
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“Negative pricing if it was wide spread it would be quickly fixed by the utilities who would simply choose to dunp excess electricity via perhaps joule heating rather than sell it at a loss.”
“These artificial leaf researchers get lots of headlines, but could they really be cost competive with normal solar panels connected to normal electrolysis units? Interconnecting a large area with plumbing for water and hydrogen will like cost more than interconnect with electrical wire. Then there is the giant lead in efficiency that normal PV solar cells have over these new PEC ...”