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Carbon Free Economy
http://carbonfreeeconomy.com
Commentary on the world’s transition to a carbon free economy, including renewable energy technologies like solar power, wind power, wave power, geothermal and others.
Recent Posts
GreenBeat: Big thank you and media roundup
Thanks to everyone who made it out to GreenBeat 2009 yesterday and Wednesday! We were thrilled with the turnout, and couldn’t be more grateful for all the support we received from attendees, speakers, sponsors and the press. It’s clear th...
GreenBeat: Al Gore says Smart Grid part of ‘the single largest solution’ to climate change
Nobel Prize winner and former vice president Al Gore gave a wide-ranging, passionate talk at VentureBeat’s GreenBeat 2009 conference yesterday in San Mateo about combating global warming. We already liveblogged Gore’s talk, but for folks ...
Battery company R2EV and Fuel 2.0: Changing the electric vehicle paradigm?
If you’ve followed coverage on R2EV, you already know that some are skeptical about the company’s battery, designed to be swapped out in a network of “Greenbox” facilities nation wide. Perceived problems with interoperability,...
GreenBeat: Live-blogging Nobel Prize winner Al Gore
Straight from VentureBeat’s GreenBeat 2009 event, we bring you former vice president and Nobel Prize winner Al Gore. I’ll be live-blogging this session — so it won’t be perfect or word-for-word, but it will be fast! We’l...
Politics and policy needed for the smart grid. Soon.
At GreenBeat 2009’s Politics and Policy session, the prevalent theme was the need for a simple, efficient legislation and regulation package for the U.S. power system. Robert Gee of Gee Strategies went so far as to say, “Before anything i...
GreenBeat: Cisco has a blank check for Smart Grid, but what will it do with it?
Cisco Systems put no limit on its budget for Smart Grid development, the company’s grid guru Laura Ipsen told the audience at GreenBeat 2009 — albeit quoting her boss John Chambers. The question now is what Cisco (a GreenBeat 2009 spons...

