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Audio Archive: Avoiding the Clean Tech Crash
Avoiding the Clean Tech Crash:Can Renewable Energy Achieve Subsidy Independence? Federal clean tech funding is poised to decline 75 percent by 2014 compared to 2009, according to a recent report from a diverse group of think tanks titled "Beyond Boom and Bust: Putting Clean Tech on a Path to Subsidy Independence". The coming expiration... [read more]
With Jaczko out, is Magwood in?
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Gregory Jaczko, the current chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, resigned this morning, ending the Republican-led witch-hunt against him in Congress. [read more]
Solar and Coal: Arch Enemies or Best Friends?
To many the concept of power generated from solar energy and fossil fuels seem diametrically opposed. One fuel source is deemed as futuristic, green and renewable whilst the other is seen as old, dirty and finite. But recent projects being undertaken around the world at the moment demonstrate the synergies that can exist when these two energy sources are combined. The question is: is the combination of solar and coal a first step in the path towards renewable energy, or is it nothing more than propaganda with the intention of slowing the progress of emerging renewable technologies? [read more]
Saudi Arabia to Unleash Solar by Investing $109 Billion
Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest exporter of crude oil plans to install a solar capacity of 41,000 megawatts by 2032. Critics have noted that to achieve this, Saudi Arabia would need to produce and export approximately half of the world’s total annual installed capacity of solar. Can the country achieve this ambitious target? [read more]
After Fukushima, will a new feed in tarriff solve Japan's energy issues?
A quick update on the status of Japan's FIT talks and its possible implications for the expansion of renewables. [read more]
Audio Archive: Energy Storage and Renewable Power
Energy Storage and Renewable Power:Is Storage a Solution to Renewable Intermittence and Grid Inefficiency? The intermittent nature of natural, carbon-free energy sources like the sun or wind has always been one of renewable power's major limitations, leaving us reliant on fossil fuels or nuclear power to supply the majority of so-called... [read more]
Pitching Cleantech: Are startup competitions a good idea for energy entrepreneurs?
More and more energy investors are giving entrepreneurs the opportunity to pitch their idea in so-called 'startup competitions'. Is there any value to these? [read more]
Smart Grid: From Vision to Benefits
Conversations on the vision, challenges, and benefits of the smart grid with Sonita Lontoh of Trilliant and Christine Hertzog of the Smart Grid Library. A TV interview archive. [read more]
Hormuz and ASEAN: Are we ready?
Nowadays, it seems like everyone stares at the board of oil prices. The situation in the Strait of Hormuz is worrying to say the least. Are ASEAN member states prepared? What steps do they need to take to be so? [read more]
Cleantech is Seeking Creative Entrepreneurs
Save for the era of Thomas Edison, it has never been a better time to be an energy entrepreneur, especially in the United States. To successfully bring their energy technology to commercialization, energy entrepreneurs have to be creative in seeking alternative methods of commercialization strategies. Sonita Lontoh shares some highlights from the workshop discussions she led at the 2012 MIT Energy Conference. [read more]
Powering the People 2.0: Investing in a Better Army
The Energy Collective was recently invited to attend Powering the People 2.0, hosted by the Edison Foundation and the Institute for Electric Efficiency. Among several presentations, the panel of army and military related experts was one of the most specific. [read more]
The Truth About Natural Gas From Shale
Natural gas from shale is a game-changer for the United States. It offers us greater control over our energy destiny, more jobs and government revenues, energy affordability, and reduced environmental impacts. Unfortunately, there are myths associated with this resource and its method of extraction, which is why I would like... [read more]
'A Substantial Failure' Of Energy Education
It is a curious thing when a mindset develops. Thoughts, data interpretation, reactions, and behaviors become solidified into expectations about what is normal and what is to come as that sense of normal changes. It's an important process of human development, and it is a particularly interesting thing to look at on a national scale --... [read more]
Will Cheap Energy Storage Come to Coal and Nuclear's Rescue?
Everyone knows that the development of low-cost, large-scale electricity storage technologies will be critical to the future of wind and solar energy--or at least everyone who reads The Energy Collective knows that! The ability to cheaply store electricity when the sun is shining or the wind is blowing and use it later when... [read more]
There is No Universal Solution for Promoting Renewable Energy Resources
In the coming years, renewable energy resources are going to play a much bigger role in the energy mix – especially in Germany, but also in Europe and worldwide. However, when it comes to harvesting renewable sources, fluctuations in their availability pose some challenges. These can be overcome. [read more]
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Baby You Can Drive My (Electric) Car
Posted May 11, 2012 by Scott Edward Anderson
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Siemens develops ABS plastic alternative
Posted May 9, 2012 by Doris de Guzman
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Reduce CO2 and Slow Global Warming?
Posted April 30, 2012 by Willem Post
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Hidroenergia 2012
May 25, 2012, Wroclaw, Poland
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WGC 2012 - 25th World Gas Conference
June 4, 2012, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Ecwatech 2012
June 4, 2012, Moscow, Russia
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Scott Edward Anderson is a consultant, blogger, and media commentator who blogs at The Green Skeptic. More »
Marc Gunther is a writer, speaker and consultant, who focuses on business and the environment. More »
Christine Hertzog is a consultant, author, and a professional explainer focused on Smart Grid. More »
Jesse Jenkins is the director of energy and climate policy at the Breakthrough Institute. More »
Robert Rapier works in the energy industry and writes and speaks about energy and the environment. More »
Geoffrey Styles is Managing Director of GSW Strategy Group, LLC and an award-winning blogger. More »
Dan Yurman is a nuclear energy blogger and writes regularly for Fuel Cycle Week. More »
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Global JOJOBAWORLD 2012
When: Fri, 2012-05-25 09:00
Hidroenergia 2012
When: Fri, 2012-05-25 09:00
NESCO Town Hall: Security Risk Management Practices for Electric Utilities
When: Wed, 2012-05-30 13:00
Ecwatech 2012
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WGC 2012 - 25th World Gas Conference
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2nd CSP Optimisation Summit
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“Cities will need to be retrofitted, as a whole. There's much work to be done. Vertical farming and other forms of energy/space/agriculture integration will be necessary to further sustain how humans live on this planet.”
“David,Reserves, potential resources and production are not interchangeable, and apocalyptic statements that depend on conflating them are thus fundamentally flawed. Your cogent analysis makes this crucial distinction well. It just needs a bigger audience.”