Sep

18

How to Protect Your Big Idea

September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment

A new paper from North Carolina State University’s Dr. Stephen Schanz offers a “how-to” guide on intellectual property protection, laying out the options for budding entrepreneurs as they consider how to move forward.  The question at any stage of building out one’s idea is how should a person protect those ideas?  Schanz is offering a [...]

Sep

10

Energy Independence Is Real

September 10, 2009 | 2 Comments

A raft of prominent people seems to want the masses to believe there is no hope of energy independence.  Of late the Saudi’s Prince Turki Al Faisal checked in to the offer that the Western World and Saudi Arabia are inevitably tied together in the oil market.  The comments follow those such as former CIA [...]

Mar

19

A Very Bright Guy With Some Sense

March 19, 2009 | 4 Comments

Here really bright people get noticed. Especially those that demonstrate they have some sense, you know like common sense. Dr. James Sweeney at Stanford comes to mind. Now we’ll add Professor Richard A. Muller at UC Berkeley. I haven’t met him as I have Sweeney, but Kerry Dolan wrote about Professor Muller in Forbes Magazine [...]

Feb

11

The Efficiency Problem

February 11, 2009 | 1 Comment

It isn’t easy to get the mass of people to move to efficiency. Big consumption equals a bigger ego, a perception of higher status and raw emotional gratification. It could be connected to the sin of pride or some such, but the other side has attractions too.
Getting efficiency has a more reasoned gratification; a shift [...]

Jan

23

What the Utility Companies Are Thinking to Change

January 23, 2009 | 1 Comment

The Edison Electric Institute, a creature of the utility industry, has a paper out that outlines what they believe are the technologies that would be most beneficial to “reducing greenhouse gas emissions.” Its also an outline of where they think investment must go to reduce fossil fuel use and keep the grid running at proper [...]

Jan

14

A Way to Save The Economy

January 14, 2009 | 2 Comments

Emails range from spam to how to get more information on topics to asking for solutions – the economy being the current leader. I’m flattered. The solutions for an economic recovery lie in the opportunities that solving current problems create. We have two obvious economic sectors in need of new innovations, credit and powering the [...]

Jan

12

To Hell With Depression. We’re Gonna Have a Good Year

January 12, 2009 | 1 Comment

That’s the last line from Mitch Albom in his piece titled ‘The Courage of Detroit’ published by Sports Illustrated Wednesday January 7, 2009. The “bonus” article is also a cover page leader headline and after you read it you’ll see why. Click on over and see, or sit tight and see if I can motivate [...]

Jan

5

Go See, Choose and Vote

January 5, 2009 | 1 Comment

The New Energy Congress is a site that addresses the bleeding edge of new energy and does a good job of updating things already onsite. Most interesting is the page of the Top 100 Technologies, which is a voted on list that ranks the technologies from 1 to 100.
I check the news page every few [...]

Jan

1

A Deep Thorough and Biased Look At Alternative Energy vs Global Warming

January 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Stanford professor Mark Jacobson has a new peer reviewed study out now that assesses the various energy resources to their opportunity cost and global warming impacts. The result that appeals to the global warming crowd is loaded into a “Total grams of CO2 equivalent to electricity resources.” You can just imagine the potential in getting [...]

Oct

8

The Missing in Action In Every Energy Plan

October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment

You do it, you get it, teach it coach it and work for it. It’s a goal – the one simple milestone that tells you “Here is success,” or “this is when I win.”
Look over a few plans:
Leading is the Pickens Plan. Good stuff, answers some immediate needs, gets us to a better situation. But [...]