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More From Less — Cleantech’s New Wave

Grant Allen Abb Technology Ventures
May 26, 2014
Cleantech is thriving. This may sound like the jawing of one of those clipboard yielding, sidewalk-canvassing, save-the-planet types, but the data are clear: As bruised and imperfect a descriptor as it is, cleantech not only has a heartbeat, it’s booming.
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Why Renewables are the Way Forward for Africa

Jasandra Nyker Biotherm Energy
May 15, 2014
If you take a solar map and a wind map and compare the African continent to other continents, you’ll see we have some of the best resources in the world. The solar resource in the Northern Cape of South Africa is 25 percent higher than that of Spain, and Spain is considered to be a world class site.
Renewable energy can bring enormous socio-economic benefits and be a ticket out of poverty for many Africans. As much as one needs roads, one needs power. And to get it from a renewable energy source means you are creating a sustainable electrical solution that will also power jobs.
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Report: US Needs to Up Its Game in Race for Clean Energy Investment

April 21, 2014
The United States has fallen behind China as the top destination for clean energy investment, and it will need to take action to remain competitive in the multibillion-dollar sector, according to a report from the Center for American Progress.
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Better Water Through Science—Open Innovation’s Hunt for Freshwater

Dr Rashid Khan Aramco Entrepreneurship
April 18, 2014
New processes and technologies, developed through an open innovation platform, could springboard desalination from the margin to the mainstream of a global strategy to combat water scarcity.
Helping to accelerate the hunt for those breakthroughs is a new $200,000 incentive in the form of an open innovation challenge.
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No Skills Gap in the Oil and Gas Industry – It’s a Perception Gap

Shaun Crofton Imperial College London
March 10, 2014
Whether the skills gap in engineering I’ve been hearing about for two decades now is real or not is a matter of opinion. I don’t think a lack of qualified engineers is the biggest recruitment issue facing the oil and gas industry. The issue is that there’s a huge perception gap.
Let’s face it: The oil and gas industry doesn’t have a terribly good reputation among students and young people. This is largely because of what they hear in the media, opinions that in my view are chiefly fostered by ignorance and misrepresentation.
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Is Natural Gas Worse for Climate Change Than Diesel Fuel?

Michael Levi Council On Foreign Relations
February 26, 2014
Science has published an interesting and useful new paper on methane leaks in natural gas operations – but the New York Times chose to highlight the one thing in it that’s both unoriginal and shaky. Understanding that flaw reveals some useful pointers for policymakers.
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The Distributed Power Transformation

Brandon Owens GE
February 25, 2014
Decentralization is a growing, global trend.  The organization of resources and people is moving away from centralized systems toward integrated networks that include both distributed and centralized elements.
Distributed power technologies, which have been around since Thomas Edison built the first power plant in 1882, are increasingly used today to provide electrical and mechanical power at or near the point of use.
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Diversity and Divergence at Play in Natural Gas Boom

James Cameron Climate Change Capital
February 24, 2014
Companies, using technologies like horizontal drilling and fracking, are responding to the world’s massive and growing demand for natural gas when there is the right combination of geology, finance, technology, regulatory framework and public acceptance.
These factors are not universally present. We have diversity and divergence – and an absolute requirement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide – at play.

There is cause for caution because, as in all complex processes, there is risk.

Risk
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Electrifying the Globe: 2014 and Beyond

February 21, 2014
Editor’s Note: Following the launch of the International Energy Agency’s much-anticipated World Energy Outlook, GE’s Power Conversion Business wanted to take a closer look at the electricity landscape, seeking to foster insight and conversation around the realities that the marine, oil and gas, energy and general industry markets face.
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Study: Keystone XL Pipeline Won’t ‘Significantly’ Impact Climate Problem

Geoffrey Styles Gsw Strategy Group Llc
February 20, 2014
I recently participated in a webchat hosted by The Energy Collective about the emissions and market impact of the Keystone XL Pipeline (KXL). It was prompted by last week’s release of the State Department’s “Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement” (SEIS) on the project.
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