by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Aug 6, 2020 | All AgTech, All Post-Carbon, Big Picture
An academic paper published last month by Australian climate scientist, Steven Sherwood and a team of global colleagues, made for sobering reading. The paper showed that a doubling of atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations – which at our present do-nothing...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Jul 31, 2020 | All Post-Carbon, Industrial Heat
When your correspondent sat down with Idealab founder, Bill Gross, to talk about one of his newest and most exciting projects, Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) company, Heliogen, we spent about half our time discussing the technical challenges of producing...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Jul 29, 2020 | All Post-Carbon
Your correspondent gets anywhere from 10-20 emails per day from public relations professionals wanting me to write about their client’s sustainability-related project. Most of these mails are about businesses that I wouldn’t consider investing in personally, that...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Jun 22, 2020 | All Post-Carbon
In January of this year – precisely one Covid-19 lifetime ago – I wrote about the power of trees to sequester carbon in my article entitled, The Premier Technology For Sequestering Carbon. This train of thought led me to learn more about the carbon credit market and...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Jun 19, 2020 | All Post-Carbon, Industrial Heat
Bill Gates calls it the 75% Problem. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from power plants only account for 25% of total, and electrical generation is one source of GHG emissions for which cheap renewable sources are well-suited. If we don’t radically reduce the remaining...
by Erik Kobayashi-Solomon | Apr 21, 2020 | All Post-Carbon, Big Picture
On this, the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, we should all be celebrating that the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) for alternative generation sources is dependably lower than that of carbon emitting sources. (My co-contributor at Forbes, Silvio Marcacci, wrote an...
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