Green Economy

In the quest for funding, entrepreneurs and hype artists often devolve into buzzwords, hoping that some magic combination of syllables will unlock the dragon’s treasure. Sometimes it even works. When it does, it just sucks money out of…

Last year, I wrote a piece railing against the people trying to drag remote workers back into the office. Traditionalists think work culture will suffer without people working in person together, even for jobs that can be done entirely…

E2: As Congress prepares to vote on Inflation Reduction Act, clean jobs data shows every state would benefit. 2 million Americans worked in clean energy in 2021 Of top 10 states for clean energy jobs, half are red states; half are blue…

Andy Tang, Wärtsilä’s VP of energy storage and optimization, sat down with me for a CleanTech Talks episode a few weeks ago. This second half of our wide-ranging conversation includes conversations about major island microgrids in the…

Egypt’s Aswan Dam, as large as it is, has been providing a declining percentage of the country’s electricity with each passing decade, while natural gas has been providing more and more. While its oil rent is less than that of nearby…

In the second half of this episode of CleanTech Talk, I speak with serial successful entrepreneur Bill Nussey. He recently published a book, Freeing Energy: How Innovators Are Using Local-Scale Solar and Batteries to Disrupt the Global…

Right now, as I’ve highlighted briefly before, there’s a hot negotiation underway between almost every other Democrat in the House & Senate and two Democratic Senators — Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin. Republican Party politicians are…

Nikkei Asia has published an interesting read on Tesla’s patent numbers, which now number in the hundreds and cover a wide variety of topics. It seems like Tesla has a new patent for something every other day. Nikkei conducted the study in…

Tesla has announced the date for its Q2 2021 earnings call. In a press release, Tesla stated that it will post its financial results for Q2 after the market closes on Monday, July 26, 2021. Tesla will also issue a brief advisory which will…

The Tesla Owners Club of Austin is celebrating Elon Musk Day on April 20th. The club set up the event and announcement on Tesla’s new Engage platform, and referenced the article I wrote last year when #ElonMuskDay was trending on Twitter on…