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Bob Metcalfe Discusses the Future of Energy at SXSW Interactive with Joel Greenberg

Coming to SXSW Interactive 2011 this week? Join Dr. Bob Metcalfe and I as we discuss how hi-tech geeks can help solve one of the most important problems of our generation: energy. Use Twitter hashtag #sxswenergy to join the conversation.

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Texas Rolling Blackout Information Resources

As controlled blackouts roll across Texas’ ERCOT electricity grid due to freezing weather, here’s some information resources that may help understand what’s going on.  Hopefully this information and others will help answer the question, “Why were their blackouts when electricity demand is higher in August?  A/C is all electric.  Heat is electric and natural gas, [...]

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Bob Metcalfe & Joel Greenberg at SXSW 2011

I’m really excited to announce that I’ll be interviewing Bob Metcalfe at SXSW 2011 this year. Our discussion is titled: Ladies & Gentleman…The Enernet! Discuss. The discussion will take place on Sunday, March 13th, although we don’t have a time yet.  It’ll just be the two of us and the format will be an interview, [...]

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Is the Mass Market Holding Us Back in Energy 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 [...]

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The Gulf Oil Spill. Winners, Losers, Implications.

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. Because [...]

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BP Oil Spill Information Resources

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 [...]

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Bob Metcalfe: Investing in Energy with Lessons Learned from Networking

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, [...]

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Applying Lessons Learned from Telecom to the Smart Grid

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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The Talk Turns to Energy at SXSW

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 [...]

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Tech2Energy 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. Haynesville [...]

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