Posted by: rocknroli on: November 11, 2009
I went to a Haas Energy Club (BERC) event yesterday. I suddenly realized that I am on the other side of the table now – instead of talking to people “in the industry”, I belong to it and was supposed to impart wisdom to students who are still trying to make a switch to renewable [...]
Posted by: rocknroli on: October 29, 2009
Here’s an interesting story on human ingenuity and perseverance. Finding local resources to power your lives, is something that appeals a lot to me about renewable power resources. There’s something about being self-sufficient for basic needs, that is very powerful and motivating.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1717149,00.html
Posted by: rocknroli on: July 8, 2009
I attended the CSP Today conference last week in San Francisco. A well attended event with many industry gurus sharing their views about the state of CSP in US.
It seems to me that there are three main advantages that are often touted for CSP (over Photovoltaic let’s say…) – Storage, cost and predictability of [...]
Posted by: rocknroli on: June 13, 2009
I wanted to share a few things that helped me in my search to switch to clean energy. Broadly, I’ll consider them three twists to well-known strategies.
1) Long-term focused networking: I attended events, conferences and talks pretty regularly in the last couple of years. These days I am running into the same people on [...]
Posted by: rocknroli on: June 8, 2009
Starting next week, I’ll be interning with a company exploring concentrated solar thermal technology. To say that I am excited would be a massive understatement….but I’ll say anyway “I AM EXCITED!!!”
I have been wanting to get into clean energy or more like environmental businesses since let’s say since I graduated from IITB. But the desire [...]
