Every once in a while I get a forward from my dad, often the Oil and Energy Investor Newsletter, with a tip about a company that has developed new technology in the energy economy. The most recent newsletter revealed that Dais Analytic received a patent for their “Nanoparticle Ultracapacitor.” According to the newsletter, “the device [...]
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Dais Analytic’s Breakthrough Energy Storage Technology
September 12th, 2011 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in Clean Technology, Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Renewable Energy, Smart Grid, Transportation 
Tags: Battery, Solar Energy, Wind Power 
No Comments »September 2011 Clean Energy and Sustainability Events
September 1st, 2011 Eric Wilson This month the calendar is chock full of events both stateside and abroad. A number of conferences center on smart grid technologies. There are also a few Public Health conferences on the agenda, one in London and the other in Brisbane, Australia which asks the question “Is Public Health Sustainable?” As with just about every [...]
Posted in Conferences, Eric Wilson, Smart Grid, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Tags: Calendar, California, Clean Energy, Wind Power No Comments »EPA’s Renewable Energy Cost Database
August 23rd, 2011 Eric Wilson Until costs of renewable energy can compete with traditional sources like coal and nuclear, it will be difficult for them to gain a large foothold. Recent news of hydroeletric power surpassing nuclear, at least temporarily, indicates that some shifts in electricity generation are occurring. However, finding reliable data to compare these alternative sources to extant [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Renewable Energy Tags: Clean Energy, Coal, Electricity Generation, EPA, Geothermal, Hydroelectricity, Nuclear, Photovoltaic, Solar Energy, Wind Power No Comments »From Renewable Fuels to Sustainable Ones
July 31st, 2011 Eric Wilson The conflating of “renewable” with “sustainable” is not a perfect pairing. Consider the definition of sustainable, “of, relating to, or being a method of harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged.” While renewable fuels offer the possibility of renewed sources of energy, they do not automatically represent [...]
Five Friday Facts
July 8th, 2011 Eric Wilson The following facts come from Lester Brown’s Plan B 4.0, which was published in 2009. The book is available in print or as a downloadable PDF from The Earth Policy Institute’s website. For all of the Five Friday Facts culled from Plan B 4.0, click here. Denmark gets more than 20% of its electricity from [...]
Posted in China, Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts, Renewable Energy Tags: Denmark, Geothermal, Plan B 4.0, Solar Energy, Water, Wind Power No Comments »July 2011 Clean Energy and Sustainability Events
July 2nd, 2011 Eric Wilson Recent news out of Germany that the country has decided to forgo nuclear energy in the upcoming years has increased the market for wind farms on the North Sea. Conferences like the offshore wind conference in Bremen, Germany this month will become increasingly important. Another intriguing international event takes place this month at the Green [...]
Posted in Conferences, Education, Eric Wilson, Sustainability Tags: AASHE, Calendar, California, Denver, Food, Green School, New York City, Waste, Wind Power No Comments »Germany Eschews Nuclear in Favor of Renewable Energy
June 30th, 2011 Eric Wilson As yet further evidence of the backlash from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant’s post earthquake crisis in Japan, German officials have announced that they will shutter all remaining nuclear reactors within the next decade. Last month, the BBC reported that the German leadership would move in this direction. Officially, all reactors will be taken [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Japan, News, Renewable Energy Tags: Biomass, Carbon Dioxide, Coal, Electricity Generation, Geothermal, Hydroelectricity, Nuclear, Solar Energy, Wind Power No Comments »Five Friday Facts: Chinese Wind Energy
June 24th, 2011 Eric Wilson As a follow up to last week’s Five Friday Facts, this rendition focuses on China’s capacity to generate electricity from wind power. This week’s facts come from the Global Wind Energy Council. According to the third National Wind Energy Resources Census, China’s total exploitable capacity for both land-based and offshore wind energy is around 700-1,200 [...]
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