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The fiscal cliff notwithstanding, the shale boom is making people bullish about America. Roger Cohen put it very elegantly, “…the self image and economic prospects of an energy independent United States are going to see a sharp uptick.” And cheap energy isn’t the only thing we may have going for us. We also have a youth bulge that is...[read more]

The term Big Data is becoming the buzz word du jour in IT these days popping up everywhere, but with good reason – more and more data is being collected, curated and analysed today, than ever before.Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter announced last week that Twitter is now publishing 500 million tweets per day. Not alone is Twitter publishing...[read more]

Government and private partners are releasing new data sets and application programming interfaces, or APIs, as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Data Initiative. This initiative is modeled on similar datathons in healthcare and public safety to innovate with publicly available data.[read more]

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I hate Facebook games. I hate the invites, the premise, and the idea that somewhere out there, people are wasting hours collecting enough fake money to buy a fake sheep for their virtual farm. I know that occasional diversions are good for the soul, so if you love these games, don’t take it too hard, they’re just not for me... Then I discovered Reforest Patagonia.[read more]

Energy efficiency programs are gaining increasing traction using social media, especially to promote residential retail products.  Alison Emerson, Digital Content & Social Media Producer of Efficiency Vermont’s highly successful social media efforts, told NEEP that they are seeing a positive trend using Facebook and Twitter to...[read more]

Longtime readers of The Green Skeptic will recall that back in 2008, I was working on a start-up venture that became the unfortunate victim of the market collapse coupled with, as Andy Swan kept reminding me every time it dipped, the plummeting price of oil after an all-time high of $147 per barrel in the summer of '08.[read more]

I don’t like to take sides in the bus v. rail food fight – I believe they both have a role to play – but it does seem to me that buses, despite their cost-effectiveness, get the short end of the stick when it comes to investment. The ASCE study I wrote about on Wednesday also highlights this point. Deficiencies in bus service, the study...[read more]

The following are 150+ Twitter hashtags that can help you gain Twitter followers interested in cleantech, sustainability, green building, climate change and other green topics. Using hashtags on Twitter can help you to grow your business, build your green brand, raise awareness about your cause, build your reputation, and more. by...[read more]

Lucinda Bromwyn DuncalfeMy friend Lucinda Bromwyn Duncalfe always makes me think. She's "crazy-smart," as she likes to say of others.  One of the smartest people I know.  So I pay attention to what she says or what she writes about. Lucinda is a serial CEO.  Her gift is to see the potential in a company or its product...[read more]

Dr. Charlie Gay, Applied Materials, on his computer.To celebrate the Summer Solstice, Dr. Charlie Gay, a veteran of the solar energy space and currently Applied Materials' president of solar, participated in a "live" chat on Reddit.com. "Dr. Solar," as he’s known in the industry, has been a proponent of solar energy since 1975 and...[read more]

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Who reads nuclear energy blogs? So, who is reading nuclear blogs? On the ANS Social Media listserv, I asked this question  recently and got some interesting results for the month of May 2011. Here’s a sample of the replies: Michele Kearny, at the Nuclear Wire, a news service, reports for the month of May 18,812 page views. Michele’...[read more]

  You’ve hard about the cloud, right? This blog comes to you from the cloud. The cloud is where the bank keeps your money. YouTube, Gmail, Twitter and iTunes live in the cloud. So does a record of all my runs in 2011. The cloud, in essence, is the millions of data centers where information and software are stored and can be accessed...[read more]

It's great having Greenfyre around again. Perhaps he should call his blog Feetfyre instead. He certainly puts matters back into the right ethical perspective. It's easy, in the ivory tower, to lose sight of the urgency of the emergency. Greenfyre doesn't let us forget.I'd like to especially thank him for this little video clip,...[read more]

I started this blog about one year ago (actually, Energetics had its inaugural post on March 22, 2010). Since then, I've posted 116 entries, averaging somewhere between 5-15 per month (with the exception of April 2010, which had 47 separate posts, a pace which I apparently could not sustain). Energetics has had, as of this writing, 3,851...[read more]

As expected it ignored reality to provide its own version of events Firms that advertise on television love the weather segment in the evening news. Everyone wants to know about it, and the possibility of offensive content is pretty low.A new development is that ‘Reality TV,’ with its dysfunctional personalities, has brought a new...[read more]