tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14314460Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:38:07 +0000The 21st Century Energy Initiativehttp://www.energy2025.com/noreply@blogger.com (Mark Paul)Blogger197125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14314460.post-4336218050626492636Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:35:00 +00002008-10-15T14:38:07.271-07:00Invest in the FutureA couple great examples of business & research labs' collaboration can be found in this article. Bottom line: American businesses need to out-innovate their counterparts in the global playing field, or risk getting left further behind!http://www.energy2025.com/2008/10/from-laboratory-to-markets-this-is-how.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mark Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14314460.post-7638833662832378887Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:30:00 +00002008-10-15T14:33:49.932-07:00Invest in the FutureAccording to Business Week, innovative business models outperform innovative processes, products and "customer experience". A more detailed "map" can be found, here. This is exactly the thinking needed to innovate our way out of our current, and the coming energy conundrum. http://www.energy2025.com/2008/10/innovative-business-models-outperform.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mark Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14314460.post-8925043934485068597Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:09:00 +00002008-10-15T08:14:37.261-07:00Political ActionMake a DifferenceInvest in the FutureThe Institute for 21st Century Energy released a Blueprint for Securing America's Energy Future at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO. It provide more than 75 energy policy recommendations for the next President and Congress. One of its major recommendations includes: Significantly Increase Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment of Advanced Clean Energy Technologies (http://www.energy2025.com/2008/10/us-chamber-of-commerce-releases-energy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mark Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14314460.post-2590902333311038817Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:51:00 +00002008-10-04T12:52:43.955-07:00Political ActionMake a DifferenceInvest in the FutureRep. Bart Gordon, a Democratic congressman from Tennessee and chair of the Science & Technology committee, believes the United States faces a new challenge in need of government support: finding the fuel of the future. He's proposed a new government entity, the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, with the mandate to invest in revolutionary technologies. http://www.energy2025.com/2008/10/us-faces-another-sputnik-moment.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mark Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14314460.post-1149827635021471867Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:53:00 +00002008-10-04T10:57:34.483-07:00Political Action"The bailout legislation signed by President Bush contains a tax-credit for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles." "The credit is a base $2,500 plus $417 for each kWh of battery pack capacity in excess of 4 kWh, to a maximum of $7,500 for light-duty vehicles; $10,000 for vehicles with gross vehicle weights of more than 10,000 but less than 14,000 pounds; $12,500 for vehicles with a GVW of more than http://www.energy2025.com/2008/10/bailout-bill-has-phev-credits.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mark Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14314460.post-4188380106788087813Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:46:00 +00002008-10-04T09:47:40.657-07:00Real SolutionsInvest in the Future"In less than a decade, the global industry of renewable energy is projected to explode from a $150-billion-a-year industry to a $600-billion-a-year industry."http://www.energy2025.com/2008/10/what-economic-problem-renewables.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mark Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14314460.post-3090060756637287833Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:22:00 +00002008-10-03T14:22:40.146-07:00Invest in the FutureGreentech startups raised $2.8 billion in venture capital in the third quarter, more than double the second-quarter total, with solar companies raking in $1.5 billion.http://www.energy2025.com/2008/10/capital-seeks-green-tech-investments.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mark Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14314460.post-4088222318090320902Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:33:00 +00002008-10-02T15:41:09.690-07:00More important informationPerhaps Congress has gotten too used to mega-bills, which require so much "negotiation" (*meaning horse-trading) that everyone wins... at the expense of the budget. (Example: the current mortgage / financial "rescue" package including green aspects.) Green-tech legislation should stand on its own and be supported by good science.http://www.energy2025.com/2008/10/bail-out-for-everyone.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mark Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14314460.post-2177815887852600600Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:07:00 +00002008-10-01T23:08:40.867-07:00Political InactionMake a DifferenceInvest in the Future"The United States government has been unable to fix the country's energy problems," Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said, but the Internet giant on Wednesday proposed its own 22-year solution. "We have seen a total and complete failure of leadership in the political parties of the United States," Schmidt said in a speech at the Commonwealth Club here. "We've been working on a plan to help http://www.energy2025.com/2008/10/googles-solution.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mark Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14314460.post-1137497321277687482Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:49:00 +00002008-10-01T07:51:06.706-07:00CommercializationInvest in the FutureIn yet another sign that greentech is defying current economic woes, GridPoint Inc., a clean tech company specializing in smart grid technologies, announced it acquired V2Green, a Seattle company that provides plug-in electric vehicle grid integration technology.http://www.energy2025.com/2008/10/green-technology-getting-acquired.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mark Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14314460.post-7899359918635810594Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:25:00 +00002008-09-30T06:26:55.190-07:00Political InactionCongress is (still) at an impasse on Renewables.http://www.energy2025.com/2008/09/politics-in-way-of-renewables.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mark Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14314460.post-4793220605148517240Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:01:00 +00002008-09-27T10:00:33.889-07:00Political InactionInvest in the FutureAs one of the "potential futures" predicted in my new book*, the downward spiral of weak-dollar-induced higher oil-prices, coupled with our inability to innovate our way out of this problem is taking hold: "Obama says Wall Street bailout will cut his energy plan." Get ready for hyper-inflation as billions get pumped into our economy. * The 21st Century Energy Initiative: How to Solve Our Energy http://www.energy2025.com/2008/09/and-so-it-begins.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mark Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14314460.post-4185489716050471589Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:21:00 +00002008-09-27T09:59:00.794-07:00Physics and FactsSupply and Demand"Energy industries will be transformed over the first half of this century and 'business as usual' projections for rising energy demand and CO2 emissions are simply unsustainable," according to Malcolm Brinded, Executive Director Exploration and Production, Royal Dutch Shell.http://www.energy2025.com/2008/09/energy-industries-set-to-change-over.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mark Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14314460.post-4859022472854946847Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:11:00 +00002008-09-26T16:19:02.355-07:00More important informationA KPMG survey finds that venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and others expect more funding for energy storage, wind and clean coal. Most venture capitalists and entrepreneurs expect greentech investments to increase next year, according to a survey released by KPMG on Tuesday. About half of the survey respondents said they expect greentech investments to jump by 20 percent or more in 2009, whilehttp://www.energy2025.com/2008/09/investors-bullish-on-2009-greentech.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mark Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14314460.post-2205340997094507771Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:48:00 +00002008-09-26T13:49:29.164-07:00More important informationSupply and Demand"While many of the world's best business brains are exercising themselves over the current global banking and equities crisis, there is another issue which has the potential to dominate our lives far more in the longer term -- energy." From a CNN report.http://www.energy2025.com/2008/09/continuing-problem-energy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mark Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14314460.post-5307359091451978058Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:45:00 +00002008-09-22T17:55:46.447-07:00Unintended ConsequencesMore important informationIt is absolutely unbelievable that our elected officials - those who are entrusted with our (read *your*) taxes have failed in their fiduciary responsibility to protect Americans. To "spend" a minimum of $785 billion* will do nothing but ignite hyper-inflation. This puts significant upward pressure on oil prices, which puts a downward spiral on the U.S. dollar. The result? As inflation revs up, http://www.energy2025.com/2008/09/unbelievable.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mark Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14314460.post-81513670684707948Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:09:00 +00002008-09-22T08:20:25.989-07:00Invest in the FutureThe Community Redevelopment Agency is proposing a greentech manufacturing and innovation hub with a 20-acre complex in the city's downtown. The city famed for its movie industry wants to be ready to attract greentech companies as utilities rush to meet a state mandate requiring power companies to get 20 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2010. The Los Angeles Department of http://www.energy2025.com/2008/09/la-to-create-cleantech-incubator.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mark Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14314460.post-5804565650467697015Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:07:00 +00002008-10-04T09:50:06.658-07:00Make a DifferenceReal SolutionsAs is NXergy's mantra, Technology & Policy are needed to bring innovative solutions to the market: Google and General Electric Team Up on Energy Initiatives Google and General Electric said Wednesday that they would work together on technology and policy initiatives to promote the development of additional capacity in the electricity grid and of “smart grid” technologies to enable plug-in http://www.energy2025.com/2008/09/technology-policy-two-sides-of-the.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mark Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14314460.post-2163879103153451849Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:51:00 +00002008-09-17T08:58:01.224-07:00Political InactionUnintended ConsequencesPolitical ActionPhysics and FactsMore important informationInvest in the FutureWith the economic meltdown in our economy, there is plenty of blame to go around. While we’ll soon be focusing on mortgage loan companies using risky methods, consumers biting off more than they can chew, Congress wanting to add more regulations (that hamper investments), and both presidential candidates blaming the other party, we might want to look a bit longer term. Both in the past and the http://www.energy2025.com/2008/09/how-to-fix-our-economy-and-energy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mark Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14314460.post-7565620066083843747Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:50:00 +00002008-09-16T19:54:47.333-07:00Physics and FactsThe American Physical Society has researched how energy efficiency can go a long way toward helping reduce foreign oil dependence as well as green house gases. The full report.http://www.energy2025.com/2008/09/american-physical-society-publishes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mark Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14314460.post-6650531222336347711Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:49:00 +00002008-09-15T16:56:51.109-07:00Make a DifferenceMore important informationSupply and DemandInvest in the FutureThe just-released chapter* "You Think It's Bad Now?" - explores in more detail the unsustainable growth in automobiles in China and India, and why significant, comprehensive, bi-partisan actions need to be taken now to address the growing "energy shift" that will hit us very hard: Twelve times as much oil will be needed in 2024 to meet the demand for (just) two countries - to get to the same "http://www.energy2025.com/2008/09/you-think-its-bad-now.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mark Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14314460.post-2045627790807461780Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:42:00 +00002008-09-11T16:27:47.976-07:00Physics and FactsInvest in the FutureDoing just a little research and a little more math, one can determine that by the time China and India catch up with America's standard of living (as measured by the number of cars per 1000 people), that by 2024 the world will need over 12 times as much oil as it uses now. Conclusions? [1] Don't blame oil companies for prices: It's supply and demand. [2] Don't blame commodity traders: It wouldhttp://www.energy2025.com/2008/09/china-india-alone-will-cause-world-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mark Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14314460.post-9069393291701571407Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:56:00 +00002008-09-08T21:59:37.094-07:00Political InactionUnintended ConsequencesPolitical ActionPhysics and FactsMore important information"Despite supposedly bold initiatives such as last year's Energy Independence and Security Act, America is no freer from foreign oil: Since 2006, imports have remained steady at about 13 million barrels every day, while the price for each of those barrels has jumped by $30. Our heavily subsidized ethanol refiners now use so much corn that prices for all grains have soared, sparking (food) http://www.energy2025.com/2008/09/seven-myths-of-energy-independence.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mark Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14314460.post-2993773121134909576Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:45:00 +00002008-09-15T12:55:40.426-07:00Political ActionIt doesn't really take a scientist to figure this out, but both candidates are running toward energy solutions: McCain's economic adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin said energy would top McCain's policy list in his first 100 days in the White House. Meanwhile, Senator Biden very interested in renewable energy (although mainly biofuels). It is likely that the candidate who proposes the most credible http://www.energy2025.com/2008/09/energy-is-1-issue-in-theis-years.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mark Paul)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14314460.post-4333826773503402074Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:41:00 +00002008-09-02T21:45:44.153-07:00Political ActionCommercializationReal Solutions"Delegates at the Republican National Convention this week got a laminated card listing their party's principles. The top item, ahead of the economy, national security and fiscal accountability: `energy independence and lower gas prices'.'' It would seem that they are oh-so-close on this issue. McCain needs to emphasize and implement a renewable energy technology acceleration approach!http://www.energy2025.com/2008/09/mccain-palin-energy-is-1-issue.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Mark Paul)