Published at The Energy Collective, Dec. 9, 2013 Wind, solar and biogas combine to keep the lights on in Germany In Germany a test has been successfully conducted of a 100% renewable energy power plant using wind, solar and biogas to provide round the clock electric power. The Kombikraftwerk 2 is a “Combined Renewable Energy…
Continue reading →Published at The Energy Collective, Dec. 3, 2013 There has been a lot of talk this week about a new PNAS study which found much higher levels of methane in the atmosphere than previously estimated. Reactions to the study were predictable. Climate activists sounded the alarm and reiterated their position that natural gas is no…
Continue reading →Published at The Energy Collective, Nov. 25, 2013 Renewable energy sources and natural gas should be considered as complements and not rivals. A hybrid gas-electric clean energy provides a workable engineering solution while 100% Renewables models based heavily on wind, solar and efficiency fall short of the meeting the functional needs of a modern technology…
Continue reading →I have seen the future of fuel and it is LNG. Liquefied Natural Gas. Its cool! Pun intended. To be honest I think that natural gas broadly speaking is the future, its cryogenic form is merely one manifestation. All forms of natural gas are useful; whether in pipelines, compressed, liquefied, converted to synthetic liquids or…
Continue reading →CH4 for a Clean Energy Economy A simple yet far-reaching proposal CH4 is methane, and it could be the fuel of choice for a clean energy economy. Methane is widely abundant and clean burning. We can use it to replace coal and petroleum and this would enable society to slash pollution, end wars for oil,…
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