aGREE 100% Jan.
Yeah I was one of the folks involved with BP going 'green' back in the
late 90's. A fellow engineer and I designed a grid-tie inverter that BP
decided to pick up for some of their gas stations. They were called "BP
Connect" stations and they had solar on the fueling island roofs and
inverters (Trace Engineering) on the posts holding up the roofs.
There is a pretty good picture of the station at
https://www.alamy.com/bp-petrol-station-with-solar-roof-brighton-uk-image236719.html
We ended up selling a few hundred inverters to them before they
cancelled the program. We were pretty excited that a dinosaur company
could actually be switching, however tentatively, to renewables, and
were pretty disappointed that they did not see the value in their offering.
Now it looks like they are trying again. Too little too late, in my
humble opinion
Tim Economu
On 9/17/2020 1:08 PM, [email protected] wrote:
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Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 15:36:43 -0700
From: Jan Steinman<[email protected]>
To:[email protected]
Subject: Re: [EVDL] Big Oil's green makeover
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From: Mark Abramowitz<[email protected]>
I would not call it a green makeover. They are investing in energy that will
make money.
I'm a bit more cynical about a "green makeover." To paraphrase Yogi Berra, it's
like deja vu, all over again!
Anyone else remember when BP re-branded itself as "Beyond Petroleum?"
Then the price of gas went up, and they abandoned that plan!
I expect the same to happen to all the newly-branded "green" polluters. As soon as their
main rape-n-pillage business recovers, they'll ditch the "green" bits, pronto!
:::: The more the work is left to nature, the greater the net yield but the longer
the time required... Thus sometimes the most apparently productive and high-yielding
sources of energy involve a lot of activity for little return, while long-term
investments, especially in naturally grown forests, provide the greatest value for
future generations. -- David Holmgren<http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=David+Holmgren>
::::
:::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::
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