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Our Shared Energy Ecosystem

5 November 2011 by Dan Webb

Dan’s current focus is renewable energy. He provides technology management consulting to startups related to photovoltaic electricity generation, automotive energy efficiency, renewable aviation fuel, algae biomass production, biodiesel production, and carbon capture. The primary values Dan brings to this work are his insatiable curiosity about technology, his ability to cope with technical complexity and create documentation for a variety of audiences, and his deep experience in bringing innovative technology products into reality at the early stage.


Energy Ecosystem

Renewable Energy in Harmony with Nature

Dan is a founding investor in private ventures focused on these sources of energy:


  1. Photovoltaic Electricity Generation — Interconnected Solar Generation LLC
  2. Energy-Efficient Automotive Products — ExoTunnel™ exhaust system (improves the engine’s fuel efficiency and creates more power)
  3. Transportation Fuel from Algae — Two startup ventures currently seeking funding



Systems Thinking as a Tool for Understanding Our Energy Ecosystem

Systems Theory
Introduction to Systems Thinking — an approach to understanding the behavior of complex systems over time. It deals with internal feedback loops and time delays that affect the behavior of the entire system. What makes using system dynamics different from other approaches to studying complex systems is the use of feedback loops, stocks and flows. These elements help describe how even seemingly simple systems display baffling nonlinearity.
System Dynamics Modeling — Using system dynamics modeling of a "bathtub dynamic," here’s how to show people the quantitative impact of CO2 on climate change and how the most common proposals for dealing with the problem will affect the rate at which CO2 will build up in the atmosphere.

Best Practices in Technology Management
Guiding Principles of Team Effectiveness
"Where Good Ideas Come From" by Steven Johnson (video 4:00) — Steven’s TED presentation (video 18:00) 
Basic Concepts of Quality Management
Balanced Scorecard — Handbook for Basic Process Improvement

Murphy’s Law and its corollaries

Filed Under: Featured, Renewable Energy

Sustainable Environment

28 October 2011 by Dan Webb

Dan’s favorite renewable energy links.

TheGreenTrackers.com — Analysis about commercializing algae-to-biofuel technology
Netflix: Fuel (Fields of Fuel) — Change Your Fuel, Change Your World
Federal incentives for renewable energy
Solar roadways — generate electricity, demark lanes with lights instead of painted stripes, sense pedestrians and animals and flash messages in the roadway ahead of oncoming motorists
ClimateProgress.org — by Joe Romm, PhD in Physics from MIT — “The Web’s most influential climate-change blogger” — Time Magazine
Yale Project on Climate-Change Communication
www.politifact.com — Rick Perry says more and more scientists are questioning global warming
PolitiFact has, once again, conducted an extensive review of the scientific research and questions around climate change, including how much is man made and the degree of consensus among scientists. That case has long been closed, despite the political echo chamber on the right. This is worth taking 5 minutes to read no matter what your existing beliefs are about the science around climate change.

Filed Under: Renewable Energy, Resource Links, Sustainable Environment

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