One Man’s View of Working Remotely
As someone who just worked remotely for 6 weeks, I truly appreciated Peter Shankman’s blog post. He is a world renowned expert on business and marketing. He is the brains behind HARO (www.helpareporter.com) which is a free site, matching reporters with subject matter experts. What is surprising about Peter is how actually available he is. [...]
read moreRenewable Energy and Responsible Land Use
The Denver Post had an informative editorial written by Joanne Ditmer that raises an interesting question: what does the expansion of renewable energy projects, especially wind and solar, mean for our public lands? There’s no question that we need more renewable energy generation in the United States, however, we need to be responsible about how [...]
read moreTime to Bolster The US Electric Grid With New Energy
Last week, President Obama promised new tax incentives and government investment in energy efficiency. This is important news. America is in dire need to secure its power independence. Our national electrical grid is in serious need of attention. This US electric grid is a complex network of independently owned and operated power plants and transmission [...]
read moreUniversal Service Fund Out, Connect America Fund In
The Universal Service Fund (USF) was put in place by President Clinton in 1997 to help local phone companies continue to support their infrastructure. As technology has grown the traditional infrastructure of phone service has changed so much that it was time for a change. U.S. President Barack Obama’s appointed FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski, is [...]
read moreCalifornia Gets the Ball Rolling on Power Storage for the Grid
Yesterday the California Independent System Operator Corporation announced that it is taking the necessary steps to allow power storage services, such as batteries, onto the grid in California. Once the changes are made to existing software and everything is approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission they expect bidding to begin for 5-10 Megawatts. Read [...]
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read moreCiris Energy Raises Series B Funding; Khosla Ventures Joins Investors Braemar Energy Ventures, Rho Ventures and GE
Common sense tells us coal isn’t green. We equate coal with sooty, carcinogenic emissions. However, a company out of Centennial, Colorado has developed a way to biochemically create clean burning methane from dirty, low-grade coal. This kind of low-grade coal is so cheap it isn’t economically feasible to transport for trade, so to be able [...]
read moreList of Lists in Clean Tech
Greentech Media put together a fantastic List of Lists for the year 2010 in Clean Tech. All of the lists are fantastic. My personal favorite was the 15 PowerPoint slides in the 3rd list down. This in particular puts in perspective the impact that the Clean Tech industry has on today’s economy and environment. Very [...]
read moreProducing Hydrogen From Solar, Efficiently
Making hydrogen by using solar energy to split up a water molecule is nothing new. However, it has never been very efficient way to get hydrogen due to the expense of the catalysts involved. The most recent issue of Science contains a paper about a new way to produce hydrogen with focused sunlight that uses a much [...]
read moreCongress Recharges Tax Incentives for the Clean Energy Sector
Our friends at Green Volts sent along a fantastic article explaining some of the tax incentives for the clean tech sector put forth by Congress. This is a very informative article. Please take a minute and click out the article in Mintz.com. Here are some of the highlights. 1603 Treasury Grant Program – Congress extended [...]
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