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Slides: Impacts Of Oil Shale On Carbon Emissions, Jeremy Boak
Slides: Impacts Of Oil Shale On Carbon Emissions, Jeremy Boak
The Promise and Peril of Oil Shale Development (February 5)
Presenter: Dr. Jeremy Boak, Center for Oil Shale Technology & Research, Colorado School of Mines
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Can Urban Solar Become A "Disruptive" Technology?: The Case For Solar Utilities, Joel B. Eisen
Can Urban Solar Become A "Disruptive" Technology?: The Case For Solar Utilities, Joel B. Eisen
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After examining the theory of disruptiveness and the inadequacy of current initiatives for renewables, I argue for a disruptive solution to solar. Achieving the kind of deployment that would be required to make a serious down payment on our climate obligations will take something far different than we have seen to date: companies devoted to national (or at least regional), large-scale installations of solar technology, and which are deeply capitalized and willing to take risks to bring solar to many homeowners. I will term these "solar utilities,'' and I propose that one or more of them should take over the …