Bill’s Notes
Bill’s notes
Essays, analysis, and arguments on the shift to clean, local energy.
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FOR AFRICA: An exciting new path for addressing energy poverty
Freeing energy shares the stories and insights of the visionaries that are addressing energy poverty by crowdsourcing a…
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Freeing Energy is now a book… it hits #1 on Amazon’s New Releases in Energy
After four years, six countries, 320 interviews, and almost 400 endnotes, the Freeing Energy book launches today.
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FOR STARTUPS: Freeing Energy is the on-ramp for clean energy entrepreneurs and innovators
Freeing Energy is the only book that is written by an entrepreneur and investor for entrepreneurs and investors.…
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FOR RENEWABLES FANS: Freeing Energy offers a new and faster path to clean energy!
While politicians and climate leaders struggle to move fast enough on clean energy, the rest of us don’t…
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Press Release for Freeing Energy Book
PRESS RELEASE: December 6, 2021, Atlanta Georgia.
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Excerpt from the Freeing Energy book: Utilities versus the Future
An excerpt from Chapter 5 in the book Freeing Energy, Pattern of Innovation. What is the Five Orders…
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Excerpt from the Freeing Energy book: the Five Orders cleantech innovation framework
An excerpt from Chapter 5 in the book Freeing Energy, Pattern of Innovation. What is the Five Orders…
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Excerpt from Freeing Energy book: What is it about?
An excerpt from Chapter 1 of the book Freeing Energy: What is the book about?
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How much CO2 and other pollution comes from burning coal?
How much CO2 and other kinds of pollution would be released if we powered a 100-watt lightbulb for…
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Hurricane Ida and another major grid outage in 2021
Hurricane Ida in New Orleans brought about the second region-wide power outage in the US this year. It’s…
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Rooftop solar can actually be cheaper than utility-scale solar farms
One of the most overused and misunderstood arguments among clean energy supporters is the notion that large scale…
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Small-scale solar installations create 10-times more jobs per megawatt than utility-scale solar
When it comes to job creation, small scale solar installations, like rooftop, commercial, and community, create far more…