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How much coal does it take to power a 100 watt lightbulb for a year?
If you want to get a visceral sense of how much coal it takes to power our world,…
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Podcast #012 – Dr. Deepak Divan: The century-old grid is evolving. How will we manage it?
Host Bill Nussey interviews Dr. Deepak Divan, the head of the Center for Distributed Energy at Georgia Tech,…
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Podcast #011 – Jeff Chamberlain: Are batteries the final puzzle piece for a clean energy grid?
Host Bill Nussey interviews Dr. Jeff Chamberlain, the CEO of venture capital firm Volta, about the exciting path…
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Five trends that will lead to the end of fossil fuels
There are five trends driving the replacement of fossil fuels with clean energy from the sun and wind,…
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April Clean Energy Headlines
* Clean energy generation tops coal in Spring 2019 * Batteries are a clean energy technology that both…
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Podcast #010 – Andy Klump: Inside China’s impact on the global renewable energy business
Host Bill Nussey interviews Andy Klump, CEO of Shanghai-based Clean Energy Associates about China and its increasing prominence…
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The top TED talks on clean energy
Over my 20 years attending TED, there have been a handful of mind-blowing talks on clean, renewable energy.…
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Podcast #009 – Bill Nussey: The clean energy renaissance and what it means for all of us
Host Sam Easterby interviews Freeing Energy founder Bill Nussey on the biggest trends and historical patterns propelling us…
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Creating the definitive list of cleantech investment firms
The Freeing Energy team is putting together the definitive list of venture capital and private equity firms investing…
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March Clean Energy Headlines
Record-breaking March headlines: * battery prices plummetted 35% in 2018 along with record deployments * biggest virtual power…
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Four steps to take your house off-grid
Taking your house or business entirely off-grid and powering it with clean energy isn’t easy today but these…
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Podcast #008 – Susan Kennedy: The future of energy will be distributed, digitized, and much, much smarter
Host Bill Nussey talks to Susan Kennedy, the CEO of visionary energy-tech company AMS, about how the grid…