All large-scale energy systems have environmental impacts, and the ability to compare the impacts of renewable energy sources is an important step in planning a future without coal or gas power. Extracting energy from the wind causes climatic impacts that are small compared to current projections of 21st century warming, but large compared to the […] Read more
A couple of weeks ago my co-founder Felipe and I were sitting in the conference room of the hotel where one of our Living Farming Trees is installed and we were trying to work on the (probably) 90th version of our pitch. The pitch was to a young audience of green-driven minds in Milan and […] Read more
To answer these questions, let us review the information available. We revised the information from the 6-storms from the period 2012-2017 (storms: Maria, Irma, Meranti, Patricia, Haiyan and Bopha). A brief description follows of the relative strength of each storm. Also, we reviewed the causes of largest blackouts on record. Hurricane Maria / Irma 2017 (references […] Read more
We often profess our love of green roofs, but a recent home design in Krakow has really taken the idea to the next level. Polish firm Superhelix Pracownia Projektowa has just unveiled a beautiful home with an enormous green roof that’s sloped over the entire northern side of the home. The roof is so large […] Read more
This week Duke Energy said that it plans to deploy about $500 million of battery storage capacity over the next 15 years, which it estimates to be equivalent to about 300 MW of capacity. (MWh of capacity was not specified.) The storage capacity investment is written into its latest Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) Combining battery […] Read more
