Everybody Is A Chief Engineer
Products look and function similar to the organizations that produced them, be it good or be it bad.
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One View of the Fall of Oil & Gas
A small loss of revenue can sometimes produce large financial losses, putting profits into negative territory. In a stressed company, this can end in complete collapse.
What Will Drive The rEVolution?
I’ve been covering the electric vehicle industry obsessively for several years now. I’ve published thousands of articles on this tech. Yet, a few old articles from years ago still stand out to me and often come to mind.
Electric Cars: What Early Adopters & First Followers Want
This 11th and final article pulled from Electric Cars: What Early Adopters & First Followers Want — a new report from CleanTechnica, EV Obsession, and GAS2 — is a summary of the whole report. Of course, I encourage you to read through the entire report, at least in parts here on CleanTechnica (where you can also … [continued]
Secret Tesla Master Plan Coming To Life
Originally published on EV Obsession. If you’ve obsessively been following Tesla for long, there’s a decent chance you’ve already run across this 9-year-old article. But a few things this week reminded me that the majority of the population, and probably even the majority of EV drivers and enthusiasts, have never … [continued]
Disruptive Technology, Solar Decathlon 2015, Solar Revolution… (Clean Electricity Highlights)
Want some more solar energy, wind energy, wave energy, and other green news on his lazy Sunday? Here you go: What is Disruptive Technology? Disruptive technology is a term that’s been tossed about in the past few years to describe apps, gadgets, innovations, and processes that change how we do things. … [continued]
$125 Million For Disruptive Energy Technology, Including “None Of The Above”
Oil prices are crashing, the cost of renewable energy is falling like a rock, and here comes ARPA-E with $125 million for even more disruptive technology.
Black Pine Woven Wheel Turbocompressor Wins Cleantech Open Prize For Noncondensable Gas Removal (VIDEO)
This post is part of an exclusive CleanTechnica series on the Cleantech Open Midwest winners. At least three cleantech competitions have tagged Black Pine Woven Wheel accelerated technology as an energy-efficient turbocompressor that promises to be useful in multiple markets. The invention has won DOE’s Clean Energy Trust Challenge, the Michigan … [continued]
Renewables’ Disruption Of The Utility Business Model Is A Good Thing
Originally published on Rocky Mountain Institute. Amory B. Lovins. Renewables are making headway in Europe and bringing a low-carbon electricity system to the forefront. Renewables were 69 percent of new capacity added in 2012 in Europe and 49 percent in the United States. Not surprisingly, this threatens utilities unwilling to … [continued]
Home Solar Power = This Century’s Automobile
Originally published on Cost of Solar. Photo Credit: DECCgovuk / CC BY-ND Solar power for homes is just getting rolling. It is projected to grow many times over in the coming decades and even simply in the coming few years. When discussing this, it’s hard to come up with a great analogy. We … [continued]
