"Is Al Gore nuts?" A feeble attempt at a rhetorical question from one, Neal Dikeman, self professed renewable energy expert and venture capitalist. That signpost, up ahead? The (twilight) low information zone.
From his site cleantech.org:
"We welcome new technologies across the cleantech sector: solar, photovoltaics, ethanol, biofuels, fuel cells, batteries, combustion, carbon, materials, IT, alternative energy, wind, geothermal, renewable power, water, environment, energy efficiency, or any other green technology."
Not only does this make no sense linguistically, but it touts ethanol (which doubles GHG over oil based fuel), fuel cells (hydrogen fuel cells? a ridiculous boondoggle) , and biofuels (which ones, biodiesel? another GHG increasing, gas guzzling, land destroying scheme).
No mention of plugin hybrids, biogas from waste/organic fertilizer, heat pump heating/cooling of buildings (capable of eliminating 36% of GHG powered by renewable electricity), smart grid supply/demand managment and storage, broadband wireless internet over the grid to enable the distributed smart grid.
It would be hard to imagine meeting the goal that Al is proposing if one had no knowledge of new technologies like this. Maybe some reading is in order to correct these apparent information gaps. My advice for Neal?
Read this blog and the ones I frequently link to. Put your venture capital to better use than you have put your reputation with these gratuitous insults disguised as informed commentary.
