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What if you could buy an energy device to power your house in the way you buy an air conditioner? What if you could power it by purchasing a block of energy at Wal-mart?
Electrochemistry expert Dr. Jeremy Meyer joins futurist Garry Golden and I as we discuss a distributed generation scenario that’s outside the box.
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Following up on our introduction to the grid podcast, Garry Golden and I invited Dr. Jeremy Meyers to talk about ideas for utility level storage. Jeremy is a professor at UT with an expertise in electrochemistry. We talk about the near term future holds for electricity storage at the utility level, which can be an important capability when integrating renewables… Read the rest
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The National Academy of Engineering calls it the greatest engineering achievement of the 20th century. Others call it the largest machine ever made. It snakes through and between cities and lives in the walls of our homes.
Containing the bottled lightening that is electricity, the electrical grid is the foundation for much of our quality of life. While oil mainly… Read the rest
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Garry Golden and I discuss recent announcements by the Department of Energy on funding energy research..and a surprising announcement from GM. Could the research be cause for cautious optimism?
ARPA-E Home page.
DOE Energy Innovation Hub Q&A.
DOE Energy Frontier Research Centers
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The realm of the very small may be a key to new energy futures. Nanotechnology is science and engineering at the scale of atoms. Garry Golden and I talk about possible future scenarios of nanotech applied to energy.
We discuss the some of the reasons why working at the nano scale is attractive, including the idea that the… Read the rest
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In our inaugural Tech2Energy podcast, Garry Golden and I talk about potentially disruptive technology in energy. We discuss how to think about disruptive technology and examples of potential disruptive technologies.
Energy — whether it’s the petroleum industry for transportation, or the electric utility industry for everything else — has a scale to it that appears to work against… Read the rest
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Cleantech Funding Meeting Notes
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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