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What We Talk About When We Talk About Protecting and Saving
This post originally appeared on The Green Skeptic in March 2008, when I was about to speak at the Aspen Environment Forum. It's reprinted here as I am on hiatus from writing the blog. I promise to be back at it soon. Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy...
Wind Industry Just Hot Air? The Green Skeptic on FOX Business
On Tuesday I sat down with Stuart Varney & Company on FOX Business to talk about wind power and the relative merits of distributed generation versus big wind farms, including the need for transmission and grid infrastructure improvements to make...
An Email from Santa to Climate Skeptics: An Annual Green SkepticTradition
A few Christmases ago, I published this email from Santa, which arrived on the night before the night before Christmas. Readers had so much fun with it, it's become an annual tradition. Enjoy! And have a Happy Holiday. Scott, aka The Green...
What Energy Efficient Light Bulb Regulations Mean: The Green Skeptic on WSJ.com
GE Lighting Institute's Mary Beth Gotti and The Green Skeptic's Scott Edward Anderson join Wendy Bounds on WSJ.com's LunchBreak to discuss new energy efficient federal light bulb regulations that take effect on January 1, 2012. Here's a link to...
A Tale of Two Cleantech Companies: My Presentation from IMPACT 2011
Today I presented "A Tale of Two Cleantech Companies: A case study of what leads to a successful exit or a stunning failure" at the IMPACT 2011 Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic in Philadelphia, PA. I told the stories of Solyndra and CPower and...
Will Wireless Vehicle Charging Become Like EZPass?
Image via Wikipedia A rather poor diagram of inductive charging. Qualcomm, long a leader in the wireless and mobile space, is expanding into in the electric vehicle (EV) charging market with its acquisition last week of HaloIPT. The acquisition,...
Is It Time For Clean Energy Investing To Go Online?
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...
The Greening of Defense: The Green Skeptic on WSJ's LunchBreak
I was on WSJ.com's LunchBreak with Wendy Bounds today talking about how the Department of Defense has become a true energy innovator and the potential benefits of an energy efficiency makeover of the Empire State building. Here is a link to the...
Clean Energy Is the New Black -- Eye, That Is...
The Tonight Show, Starring John DoerrThere's so much noise about "clean energy" and "green jobs" and "Obamacare"...oh, well, maybe not Obamacare, but it's tainted by the same brush these days, I'm afraid. I was talking with my cleantech colleague...
The Trouble With Air-Conditioners
Demand response is a topic that can easily bring a sleepy man to dreamland.So it was with some trepidation that I attended the New York Academy of Sciences' "Market Makers: Developing and Deploying Energy Efficiency Technology in NYC" event, part of...
Algae Away! US Navy Invests In Alternative Fuels
For every 50 fuel convoys deployed by the US military, one soldier dies or gets injured.An astounding figure shared by Thomas Hicks, deputy assistant secretary of the US Navy for energy, at the Clinton Global Initiative meetings in New York Tuesday...
Cheaper Solar Energy Through Leasing: The Green Skeptic on LunchBreak
I sat down today with Wendy Bounds of WSJ.com's new LunchBreak program to talk about solar leasing and two companies, SolarCity and SunRun, making solar energy generation more affordable for homeowners. Here is the video: And her is a link to...
