Saturday, August 24, 2013

Potential payoffs from ubiquitous BIPV

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As an MIT alum interested in clean energy, I subscribe to the free semiannual magazine Energy Futures. The purpose of the magazine is to ...
Sunday, June 30, 2013

Where will the clean energy come from?

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Last week, the president proposed a new push to reduce GHG. It’s not clear how (or if) the Congress will go along, or how much can be legall...
Sunday, May 19, 2013

Hopes and dreams for the Department of Energy

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The Senate last week unanimously confirmed MIT physicist Ernest Moniz as the new Secretary of Energy. As an MIT alumnus, I’m proud — but as...
Saturday, May 4, 2013

Rise and fall of the world’s biggest solar company

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In 2011, Suntech Power Holdings was the world’s biggest solar panel producer, shipping more than 2 gigawatts of panels. As Wayne Ma of the  ...
Monday, February 11, 2013

Magnifying rather than quelling range anxiety

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In the ongoing search for electric car nirvana, the Tesla Motor Company has enjoyed an unusually charmed existence. Perhaps it’s the Silicon...
Thursday, November 1, 2012

Are biofuels doomed without subsidies?

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A molecular biologist (turned biofuels entrepreneur) made a stark prediction Tuesday: Famed genomics researcher J. Craig Venter, who is w...
Monday, October 8, 2012

Candidates duck energy debate

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In anticipation of the first presidential debate, I was interviewed by a representative of LA’s second largest newspaper group. Here’s how i...