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CleanWeb: The Intersection of IT and CleanTech by Neal .. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living For many observers, the bloom is off cleantech venture investing. The challenges are numerous and increasingly well-known: capital requirements are too large, the non-mark ... Read on »

Going With The Flow by Neal .. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living In recent months, I’ve come across more work being done in flow batteries than I’ve seen in the prior decade. I’ve been known in the past to say that fuel cells are kinda li ... Read on »

A Tribute to our Blogger and Cleantech Venture Capitalist, David Anthony by Neal .. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living As previously reported by GigaOm and others, one of our bloggers, cleantech venture capital investor, David Anthony, of VC firm 21 Ventures, took his own life last month. W ... Read on »

Separation Anxiety by Neal .. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living When Home Performance with Energy Star launched in Maine in 2006, we defined the energy improvement process as test-in, upgrade, test-out. The parenthetical testing was part ... Read on »

Danger: Silly Season Ahead by Neal .. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Here’s a musical experiment for you: play a song such as ”Penny Lane” from The Beatles (or, if you prefer classic rock, “Whole Lotta Love” by Led Zeppelin will do nicely) o ... Read on »

Rethinking the Role of Government in Cleantech by Neal .. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Another year, another wringing of the hands over tax credits and incentives for clean technology. Lobbyists and vendors in the U.S. are once again singing the blues, calling ... Read on »

The Geopolitics of Energy by Neal .. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living “The Geopolitics of Energy”: that was the title of a talk given at the Opportunity Crudes conference in Houston last week by Guy Caruso of the Center for Strategic and Inte ... Read on »

Conducting Home Performance by Neal .. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living “Home Performance” used to sound like something musically-inclined parents forced their children to do in living rooms. It’s catching on, slowly, for what it really is, and ... Read on »

Venturing Into The Future by Neal .. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Last week, I attended a breakfast hosted by the Michigan Venture Capital Association, at which the President of the National Venture Capital Association, Mark Heesen, made s ... Read on »

Living In A Material World by Neal .. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living It’s becoming increasingly clear to me that cleantech, in large part, is actually materials tech. “Nanotechnology” has some vogue as a term, but fundamentally nanotech is m ... Read on »

Gertie Finds a New Home by Neal .. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living Gertie is a camper — a “short” bus with a powerful International engine. In 2006, I drove her from Colorado to Maine while chronicling in this blog a quest for biodiesel fue ... Read on »

Low Cost Desalination? Call off the hunt, we are there. by Neal .. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living For anyone involved in water desalination, the following quote from John F. Kennedy will be very familiar: “If we could produce fresh water from salt water at a low cost, th ... Read on »

Dark Days for the Solar Industry by Neal .. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living With the Solyndra debacle and other bankruptcies (e.g., Evergreen Solar, SpectraWatt), and a 65% decline in the MAC Global Solar Energy Index (SUNIDX), 2011 was a bad year f ... Read on »

Pike’s Peek at CleanTech by Neal .. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living At the foot of the Flatirons along the Front Range of the Colorado Rockies, Boulder is one beautiful town. With the University of Colorado and the region’s unparalleled out ... Read on »

Great Day by Neal .. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living One upside to the economic downturn is the influx of finance and technology professional entering the sustainability sector. They are ubiquitous. (“And they are everywhere, ... Read on »

When the Sun Goes Bad by Neal .. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living In late January, a significant solar storm unleashed enormous amounts of energy into space. Here on Earth, warnings were issued that the bursts of solar radiation could sig ... Read on »

Ford to Sell Multiple EV and Hybrids in 2012 by Neal .. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living excerpt from original post at Clean Fleet Report With gasoline prices over $4 per gallon in many states, Ford is rolling out a variety of exciting hybrid cars and electric c ... Read on »

Pressure Drop by Neal .. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living In residential building science, the standard (accepted) method for determining air leakage is to depressurize the house, and use an infrared, or thermographic, camera to id ... Read on »

California Gains 10,000 EV Charge Points in NRG Agreement by Neal .. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living from original post at Clean Fleet Report California already has over 10,000 of the new electric vehicles on the road and 2,000 public charge points. Over 10,000 new electric ... Read on »

Afternoon, Deloitte by Neal .. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Green Living The consulting firm Deloitte recently released a report entitled “Every Company Is An Energy Company (And If It Isn’t, It Will Be Soon)”. The main message is that, with incr ... Read on »

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