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Wind Science Fluttering in the Breeze
Three years ago Inc magazine praised a recently-funded startup called WindTronics. Their energy claims for their $5500 rooftop wind turbine seemed so absurd that I suspected Inc had botched the...
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Is Clean Energy a Wicked Problem?
Deciding whether clean energy is a wicked problem involves two tasks. One is to define wicked problem and the other is a formulation of the clean energy objective. Advocates of Design Thinking and...
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Is Clean Energy a Wicked Problem? – Part 2
William Storage 19 Sep 2012 Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley Science, Technology & Society Center In the last post I looked at Rittel and Webber’s definition of wicked problem toward...
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Is Clean Energy a Wicked Problem? – Part 3
In two previous posts I looked at the established definition of wicked problem and tested whether a rough statement of the clean energy problem met the 10 (adjusted to 11 by me) points of that...
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Wind Energy Half Truths and Double Talk
On both sides thus is simple truth suppressed - Shakespeare, Sonnet 138 In the last post I looked at the use of the term wicked problem as commonly applied to clean energy and climate change. I found...
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Wind Energy (Light)
My previous post on wind energy was long. Here’s the executive summary, followed by two corrections resulting from reader comments. Based on current or foreseeable grid and energy storage technology,...
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US Wind Power Limitations – Simple Math
I am all for wind power where it makes sense. It seems to make sense in certain high mountain passes in California where the wind is both strong and consistent – class 6 or 7 wind resources where class...
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Engineering Innovation, Environmentalism and Sustainable Energy
If the world is to be saved, it will be innovative engineers who save it. There is a reasonable chance that the planet needs saving from greenhouse gas and too much carbon dioxide. It’s not certain,...
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Sun Follows the Solar Car
Bill Storage once got an A in high school Physics and suggests no further credentials are needed to evaluate the claims of most eco-fraud. Once a great debate raged in America over the matter of...
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Pure Green Sense
With some sadness I recently received a Notice of Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors signaling the demise of PureSense Environmental, Inc. PureSense was real green – not green paint. It’s ironic...
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Mark Jacobson’s Science
The writings of Stanford’s Mark Jacobson effortlessly blends science and ideology along a continuum to envision an all-renewable energy future for America. His success in doing this marks a sad state...
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Physics for Environmentalists
“Alienation from nature and indifference toward natural processes is the greatest threat leading to destruction of the environment.” For years this statement appeared at the top of an ecology awareness...
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Yes, Greta, let’s listen to the scientists
Young people around the world protested for climate action last week. 16-year old Greta Thunberg implored congress to “listen to the scientists” about climate change and fix it so her generation can...
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Climate change denier, climate denial and similar terms peaked in usage, according to Google trends data, at the last presidential election. Usage today is well below those levels, but based on trends...
View ArticleAlternative Energy News Oct 2019
This is not news about alternateve energy. It is alternatative news about energy. I.e., it is energy news of the sort that may not necessarily fit the agendas of MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN, so it is...
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