Category: wind energy

• RethinkX update on Wind, Solar, and Storage

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  Oct 24.2020
• Good news, and a beacon of progress, with hope for more to come

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  Sep 14.2020
• Professor Mark Z Jacobson on 100% zero Carbon energy, at North County Climate Change Alliance

  carbon dioxide . clean disruption . CleanTechnica . climate change . climate disruption . climate economics . fossil fuels . global warming . investment in wind and solar energy . Mark Jacobson . solar democracy . solar energy . solar power . solar revolution . Tony Seba . wind energy . wind power . zero carbon

  Aug 18.2020
• More reasons why centralized grids and ISOs/RTOs cannot be trusted, with an afterthought

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  Dec 21.2019
• A glimpse of Solar Domination

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  Nov 21.2019
• Alex Steffen on The Climate Strike

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  Sep 17.2019
• Solar plus storage is now cheaper than any non-solar electrical power

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  Jul 13.2019
• “Strong First Quarter Growth and Fracked Gas Takes a Hit”

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  Jul 1.2019
• “Build way more wind and solar ‘than needed’”

  Anthropocene . climate . climate change . environment . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . rationality . reasonableness . solar democracy . solar domination . solar energy . solar power . solar revolution . wind energy . wind power . zero carbon

  May 31.2019
• Earth Day 2019: So how do people transition to the new energy economy?

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  Apr 22.2019
• Result of our own fiddling: Bob Watson and climate risk

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  Mar 20.2019
• “Renewables are set to penetrate the global energy system more quickly than any fuel in history” (BP, 2019 Energy Outlook)

  Anthropocene . being carbon dioxide . Bloomberg New Energy Finance . BNEF . BP . bridge to somewhere . Carbon Tax . clean disruption . CleanTechnica . climate change . climate disruption . corporate citizenship . corporate litigation on damage from fossil fuel emissions . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . ecomodernism . economic trade . ecopragmatist . fossil fuel divestment . fossil fuel infrastructure . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . investments . local generation . local self reliance . solar democracy . solar domination . solar energy . solar power . the energy of the people . the green century . the right to be and act stupid . the right to know . the value of financial assets . Tony Seba . tragedy of the horizon . utility company death spiral . wind energy . wind power . zero carbon

  Feb 16.2019
• Wake up, Massachusetts! Especially, Green Massachusetts!

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  Feb 1.2019
• “About” section of this blog has been revised, and rules of commenting made more prominent

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  Jan 21.2019
• “… [N]ew renewable energy capacity could quadruple that of fossil fuels over next three years”

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  Jan 18.2019
• Love your home. The place we call home needs love. But love means nothing, without action.

  Ørsted . bridge to somewhere . Buckminster Fuller . climate disruption . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . ecological disruption . electricity . green tech . Green Tech Media . investment in wind and solar energy . local generation . solar democracy . solar domination . solar energy . solar power . Spaceship Earth . sustainability . the energy of the people . the green century . tragedy of the horizon . utility company death spiral . wind energy . wind power . zero carbon

  Jan 5.2019
• Gov Jerry Brown on Meet the Press, a parting comment on 2018 at Bill Gates’ Notes, and the best climate blog post of 2018

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  Dec 30.2018
• Cold Massachusetts Thanksgiving powered by Massachusetts solar

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  Dec 14.2018
• What will happen to fossil fuel-fired electric bills everywhere, eventually, including those fired by natural gas

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  Aug 18.2018
• Local Energy Rules!

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  Aug 13.2018
• Love means nothing, without understanding, and action

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  Aug 2.2018
• “The path to US$0.015/kWh solar power, and lower” (PV Magazine and GTM Research)

  American Solar Energy Society . Bloomberg New Energy Finance . BNEF . bridge to somewhere . clean disruption . CleanTechnica . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . distributed generation . electricity . electricity markets . fossil fuel divestment . green tech . Green Tech Media . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . investments . ISO-NE . local generation . local self reliance . marginal energy sources . microgrids . natural gas . solar democracy . solar domination . solar energy . solar power . Sonnen community . stranded assets . the energy of the people . the green century . utility company death spiral . wind energy . wind power . zero carbon

  May 27.2018
• What gives me hope … And it ain’t the small stuff

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  May 3.2018
• LLNL Sankey diagram of U.S. national energy flows in 2017: What’s possible, what’s not, and who’s responsible

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  Apr 26.2018
• (reblog) Bill Ritter, Jr, Colorado State University: “Market forces are driving a clean energy revolution in the U.S.”

  American Solar Energy Society . Amory Lovins . Bloomberg New Energy Finance . BNEF . bridge to somewhere . Buckminster Fuller . clean disruption . CleanTechnica . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . destructive economic development . economics . EIA . electricity . electricity markets . investment in wind and solar energy . Joseph Schumpeter . Michael Osborne . solar democracy . solar domination . solar energy . solar power . sustainability . the energy of the people . the green century . Tony Seba . wind energy . wind power . zero carbon

  Apr 22.2018
• “Eon and RWE just killed the utility as we know it”

  Bloomberg . Bloomberg New Energy Finance . bridge to somewhere . Buckminster Fuller . business . CleanTechnica . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . demand-side solutions . economics . EIA . electricity . electricity markets . energy utilities . grid defection . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . investments . Joseph Schumpeter . local generation . local self reliance . marginal energy sources . microgrids . nonlinear systems . regulatory capture . risk . Sankey diagram . solar democracy . solar domination . solar power . stranded assets . supply chains . sustainability . the energy of the people . the green century . the value of financial assets . tragedy of the horizon . unreason . utility company death spiral . wind energy . wind power

  Mar 11.2018
• wind+storage 2.1 ¢/kWh, solar+storage 3.6 ¢/kWh

  American Petroleum Institute . American Solar Energy Society . Amory Lovins . Bloomberg New Energy Finance . BNEF . bridge to somewhere . Buckminster Fuller . Cape Wind . Carbon Worshipers . clean disruption . CleanTechnica . climate economics . corporate litigation on damage from fossil fuel emissions . Cult of Carbon . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . destructive economic development . distributed generation . economics . electrical energy storage . electricity . electricity markets . energy storage . energy utilities . FERC . Green Tech Media . ILSR . investment in wind and solar energy . Joseph Schumpeter . leaving fossil fuels in the ground . local generation . local self reliance . marginal energy sources . Massachusetts Clean Energy Center . microgrids . natural gas . petroleum . pipelines . public utility commissions . PUCs . rate of return regulation . regulatory capture . solar democracy . solar domination . solar energy . solar power . Spaceship Earth . stranded assets . sustainability . the energy of the people . the green century . the value of financial assets . Tony Seba . tragedy of the horizon . wind energy . wind power . zero carbon

  Jan 13.2018
• FERC: No multi-billion dollar bailout for coal and nuclear generating facilities

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Solar Energy Society . Amory Lovins . Berkeley . Bloomberg New Energy Finance . BNEF . CleanTechnica . climate economics . decentralized electric power generation . distributed generation . electricity markets . energy utilities . FERC . green tech . grid defection . ILSR . investment in wind and solar energy . ISO-NE . John Farrell . Joseph Schumpeter . microgrids . rate of return regulation . stranded assets . sustainability . the energy of the people . the value of financial assets . Tony Seba . wind energy . wind power

  Jan 9.2018
• Ørsted: love means nothing without action

  Anthropocene . climate change . decentralized electric power generation . decentralized energy . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . solar democracy . solar domination . solar energy . solar power . Svante Arrhenius . the energy of the people . the green century . the right to know . the value of financial assets . wind energy . wind power . zero carbon

  Oct 8.2017
• POWER MOVE: Brought to you by Siemens and The Atlantic

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  Sep 21.2017