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As we watch the continue tragedy of the gulf oil spill unfold, Garry Golden and I talk about the implications. Certainly, there are a lot of losers. The Lousiana seafood industry is $2.8 billion dollar industry. That’s going to be affected. Tourism will probably be affected. The oil industry will come under greater scrutiny.
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Looking for more information on the gulf oil spill? Want to go deeper than the national news? Want to volunteer? Want to know who to call?
Tech2Energy has compiled a list of useful resources to help you get the information you need. There’s a lot of great work being done by people, companies, agencies, and non-profits all along the Gulf… Read the rest
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OK. Say you did something like invent and promote the networking standard everyone uses. What do you do next?
How about investing in energy? It’s a big problem and big problems bring big opportunity.
But how?
“The trick,” says Dr. Bob Metcalfe, inventor of ethernet, founder of 3Com, and a Venture Capitalist investing in energy, “If… Read the rest
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The Smart Grid adds, well, “smarts” to the electricity grid. There are other networks with intelligence in them, such as telecom networks. What lessons can we learn from them as we create the Smart Grid? What can we do make sure we end up making the “Energy Internet” instead of inadvertently creating the “Energy Compuserve?”
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South by South West is arguably the largest interactive festival in the world. Certainly, it’s the most friendly. When a bunch of tech geeks get together, the talk invariably turns to energy.
I moderated the panel, “Can the Creative Class Transform the Energy Business.” Garry Golden and I talk about the energy discussions I’ve been having at SXSW.
Tech2Energy will be attending the 2010 SXSW Interactive conference in a big way:
“Can the Creative Class Transform the Energy Business?”
Monday, March 15, 11am
I’ll be moderating the discussion. This is a late addition to the SXSW schedule, but the audience is the sweet spot for Tech2Energy.com: geeks who are interested in energy.
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These are my raw notes from the CleanTX funding forum meeting: Other People’s Money: The New Funding Landscape.
Summary:
Frankly, sounds like typical funding advice except the relience on science and atoms.
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Today’s podcast is different; we discuss items in the news for a good long time. Bloom energy, Cleanovation Conference, water, etc. Also, how to get LEED certified if you’re not an architect nor a developer.
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Fuel cells are like batteries that don’t die. As long as they’re connected to their fuel source–typically hydrogen, natural gas, alcohol, or methanol–they pump out electricity. They are potentially a disruptive technology for how we power our buildings. But, they’ve been expensive, finicky in the past. Are they just an electrochemistry geek’s dream, or are they for real?
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Is the Mass Market Holding Us Back in Enegy Innovation?
I recently gave a talk at IEEE in Austin about how the present state of energy is based upon the mass market and that the mass market’s requirements don’t foster innovation. They foster the status quo.
I began with a simple question, “How many people in this room think that we have the best energy system(s) today?” If you think… Read the rest
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