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John Hofmeister, Shell Oil president, sees an important role for his company in supplying the world’s energy in the future. Petroleum (oil and gas) will remain, at least for the near to medium future, the most important energy resource. Shell [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Clean Tech, Connected Social Media, SmartEnergy Tags: biofuels, energy, John Hofmeister, Petroleum, renewable energy, Shell Oil
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Erik Straser leads the cleantech investment of Mohr Davidow Ventures. It’s his job to seek out promising start-ups in solar energy, biofuels, energy storage, industrial biotech and clean coal. [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Clean Tech, Connected Social Media, SmartEnergy Tags: biofuels, biotech, Cleantech, Erik Straser, investment strategies, Mohr Davidow Ventures, solar energy
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Roz Naylor explained to us in a previous podcast how energy decisions made in the U.S. or Europe can have unintended consequences for the rest of the world. Because of the importance of this topic, we visited one of her [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Clean Tech, Connected Social Media, SmartEnergy Tags: Joanne Gaskell, Roz Naylor
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World corn prices have risen considerably in recent years because of corn ethanol production. If you are poor and rely on cheap corn as your staple food, such price increases are bad news. This is just one example of how [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Clean Tech, Connected Social Media, SmartEnergy Tags: corn ethanol, Margot Gerritsen, Roz Naylor
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Meet Professor Pam Matson, dean of the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford University and renowned scientist. Pam is super-excited about the opportunities that ever-increasing levels of private and industrial funding for energy and environmental research offer. How can universities [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Clean Tech, Connected Social Media, SmartEnergy Tags: global warming, Pam Matson, Stanford, sustainable energy
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Plants are not as efficient as you might think in capturing solar energy. Current photovoltaic panels can capture more energy per square meter — quite a bit more in fact — than biomass crops that are being suggested as feedstock [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Clean Tech, Connected Social Media, SmartEnergy Tags: Alfred Spormann, biomass, ethanol, photovoltaic, solar energy
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You may not be aware that coalfires, both natural and man-made, generate large amounts of carbon dioxide. In China alone, the estimated amount equals that of the U.S. transportation sector! Meet Taku Ide, a PhD student at Stanford University, who [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Clean Tech, Connected Social Media, SmartEnergy Tags: carbon dioxide, Stanford, Taku Ide
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China’s economy is growing fast, and China’s demand for energy is growing right along with it. To accommodate this growth in a sustainable manner, China must move away from a largely coal-based energy portfolio. If it does not, the already [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Clean Tech, Connected Social Media, SmartEnergy Tags: energy efficiency, MADE IN CHINA, sustainable, Tony Kovscek
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We’ll meet four aspiring energy engineers, businessmen and policy makers. Each student has his/her own reasons to study energy: Heather is determined to bring green energy technology to Anchorage, Alaska; Erin is convinced that the renewable energy industry offers fantastic [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Clean Tech, Connected Social Media, SmartEnergy Tags: renewable energy
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When you hear “fuel cells” you may, first and foremost, think about hydrogen fuel cells for vehicle transport. But fuel cells are not at all limited to hydrogen, and are attractive energy suppliers for industrial and domestic usage. Professor Nigel [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Clean Tech, Connected Social Media, SmartEnergy Tags: entrepeneur, fuel cells, hydrogen, Nigel Branson, Paul Shearing
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Professor Patrick Corbett, from Heriot-Watt’s energy institute, knows that oil companies like BP and Shell are serious about their investments in green energy technologies. He has tracked their contributions for a long time, and believes that their involvement is much [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Clean Tech, Connected Social Media, SmartEnergy Tags: alternative energy, Heriot-Watt, Patrick Corbett
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Forget alternative energies: in the short term the only feasible solution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and petroleum dependencies is energy efficiency. There is much to be gained, especially in the U.S., where energy consumption per person has risen above [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Clean Tech, Connected Social Media, SmartEnergy Tags: alternative energies, greenhouse gas, Jim Sweeney, Precourt Institute
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It’s exciting to see young engineers excited about designing new green energy technologies. Meet one of them: Adam Kreek. Adam designed and built a (small scale!) biodiesel plant in the basement of my university building, which takes waste oils and [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Clean Tech, Connected Social Media, SmartEnergy Tags: Adam Kreek, biodiesel, green energy
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Silicon Valley is buzzing, but not just because of software and hardware investments. The new boom is in green energy technologies. James Horn is an investment manager for Noventi, one of the many Venture Capitalist firms excited about the energy [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Clean Tech, Connected Social Media, SmartEnergy Tags: green energy, James Horn, Noventi, Silicon Valley, venture capitalist
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You may like them or you may not, but nuclear power plants will no doubt be proposed as alternatives to coal-fired power plants. Yes, the nuclear waste problem is significant, but nuclear plants emit negligble amounts of green house gases, [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Clean Tech, Connected Social Media, SmartEnergy Tags: Jon Koomey, nuclear
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Alternatives can help create a sustainable energy future. The most promising long-term alternative energy sources are wind and solar: there is plenty of it, greenhouse gas emissions are low, and the required surface area is relatively small — especially when [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Clean Tech, Connected Social Media, SmartEnergy, Technology Tags: End Of Oil, energy, greenhouse gas, Margot Gerritsen, solar, sustainable, wind
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In Iceland and a few other countries, geothermal energy delivers a large part of the energy used for heating or cooling, through geothermal heat pumps. You may be surprised to hear that there are hundreds of thousands of buildings in [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Clean Tech, Connected Social Media, SmartEnergy, Technology Tags: geothermal energy, Hot Dry Rock, Roland Horne
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There’s a lot of enthusiasm right now around ethanol as a potential solution to our oil addiction. Not everyone shares that enthusiasm, though. Margot Gerritsen speaks with UC Berkeley Professor Tad Patzek for a different perspective. Patzek is certain that [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Clean Tech, Connected Social Media, SmartEnergy, Technology Tags: carbon emissions, energy security, ethanol, Margot Gerritsen
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Wind energy is a very attractive energy source with very low emissions and low space requirements (especially when compared to biomass crops). My colleague, Mark Jacobson, has done extensive research into available wind resources in the U.S. and abroad. [See the full post…] |
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Categories: Clean Tech, Connected Social Media, SmartEnergy, Technology Tags: energy, Mark Jacobson, MarkJacobson