Paul Gipe
is an author, advocate, and analyst of the renewable energy industry. He has written extensively about the subject for the past four decades, receiving numerous awards for his efforts. Gipe has lectured before groups from Patagonia to Puglia, from Tasmania to Toronto, and from Halifax to Husum. He has spoken to audiences as large as 10,000 and as small as a private presentation for Vice President Al Gore. Gipe is well known for his frank appraisal of the promise and pitfalls of wind energy, including his stinging critiques of Internet wonders and the hustlers and charlatans who promote them. He led the campaign to adapt electricity feed laws to the North American market–the same policy that has stirred a renewable energy revolution in Germany.
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Tom Weis’ Worldfire: A Climate Journey–Review
WORLDFIRE: A Climate Journey from the Depths of Despair to a Haven of Hope is Tom Weis’ powerful new book he’s publishing in serial form on his Coming Home to Gaia web site. It’s a novel format, and more so because he’s providing it gratis or through a subscription service …
David Toke has a powerful story to tell in Energy Revolutions: Profiteering versus Democracy, his recently released book encapsulating a lifetime in the renewable energy trenches. Toke doesn’t mince words. His title alone says it all. What’s needed is not a transition from fossil fuels, as COP 28 meekly requested, …
An article by Recurrent’s Liz Najman last winter, EV range anxiety afflicts this group of people the most, busted one of EV’s most persistent myths. The fear that EVs will leave you stranded by the side of the road instills such “range anxiety” in drivers that no one would ever …
Yes siree, we’re serious folk here in Bakersfield, Kern County’s largest city. We strive to be Number 1 in whatever we do. We’re Number 1 in carrots. We produce eight of every ten carrots produced in the USA. We’re Number 1 in California oil production, (13th in US oil production), …
The Deutches Windkraft Musuem (German Windpower Museum) has acquired one of the massive blade tips from the giant German wind turbine Growian, writes Arne Jaeger. Jaeger found the red-painted blade tip on a farm near the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Koog test site where the turbine had been installed by the German government in …
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A dozen more condors are sailing Kern skies as part of a yearslong conservation effort that has recently included local clean energy companies to save the endangered bird. In a May 1 announcement, energy company Avangrid announced it exceeded conditions set in a conservation plan it created with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2021 to fund the raising of a dozen California condors at the Oregon Zoo.
When James Blyth created what many believe was the world’s first wind turbine in 1887, villagers dismissed it as the “work of the devil”. The huge structure at Blyth’s family home in the Aberdeenshire village of Marykirk was built with four cloth sails and generated enough power to light 10 bulbs along with a small lathe. It is said that he offered to light the streets of the village with his electricity but the offer was shunned. Blyth’s vision of a future powered by wind only started to be realised many decades after his death
Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) announced on Saturday that there is now one EV fast charging station for every five gas stations in California. California has led the US in the number of EVs and EV charging stations every year since 2016, according to the US Energy Information Administration in December.
Honda will build batteries for electric vehicles in Ontario with financial support from the Canadian and provincial governments under a plan to be announced this week, a source with direct knowledge of the deal told Reuters. Under the terms of the agreement with Ottawa and Ontario, Honda will build batteries, process the cathode materials needed for the batteries, and also assemble electric vehicles in Ontario.
Be polite, plan ahead, don’t jump the line, and other charging tips to ensure harmony.
Frozen pumps. Skyrocketing fuel costs. Plummeting resale values. Here’s why owners who bought into Toyota’s hydrogen dream feel “cheated and misled.”
The following pages include some of the photos from my collection, including both digital and scanned images.
My photographs have appeared in Popular Science, Sierra, Solar Age, Alternative Sources of Energy, L’Espresso, Air & Space Smithsonian, Windpower Monthly, WindStats, Renewable Energy World, and other magazines, in several engineering and physics textbooks, on brochures and posters published by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, by Friends of the Earth (UK), by the Union of Concerned Scientists, and the World Wildlife Fund.
