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Electricity: Ready for Centre Stage (Part 4 – Priorities for Government and Industry)
In Parts 1-3 of this series, we looked at electricity’s modern revolution and how it will set traditional concerns aside as out of date, and in so doing will bring five timely and relevant new priorities to the fore for governments and industry to address. We’ll look now at the first of these priorities, as I see them… (... [read more]
Electricity: Ready for Centre Stage (Part 3 - From Regional Supplier to Global Problem-Solver?)
Admittedly, not all the trends identified in my most recent post in this series have positive implications for electricity; resource depletion, for instance, may entail costs and shortfalls for the sector’s water and material inputs, while climate change is not only a one-sided opportunity – it will also entail costly adaptation... [read more]
Electricity: Ready for Centre Stage (Part 2 - Energy Challenges in an Interdependent World
Here, then, are some of the energy-related challenges that form the backdrop to our world’s heightened electricity expectations… The last two decades have seen some extraordinary changes in the world – changes that have only been accelerating. In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, centers... [read more]
Electricity: Ready for Centre Stage (Part 1)
Increasingly, observers are looking to electricity to address an array of major energy challenges confronting society. Electricity is widely expected to play a greater role in the global energy system and in meeting societal needs than it has in the past. But if electricity is to answer this call, it must also be given the... [read more]
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Baby You Can Drive My (Electric) Car
Posted May 11, 2012 by Scott Edward Anderson
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Siemens develops ABS plastic alternative
Posted May 9, 2012 by Doris de Guzman
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Reduce CO2 and Slow Global Warming?
Posted April 30, 2012 by Willem Post
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Hidroenergia 2012
May 25, 2012, Wroclaw, Poland
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WGC 2012 - 25th World Gas Conference
June 4, 2012, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Ecwatech 2012
June 4, 2012, Moscow, Russia
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Scott Edward Anderson is a consultant, blogger, and media commentator who blogs at The Green Skeptic. More »
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Global JOJOBAWORLD 2012
When: Fri, 2012-05-25 09:00
Hidroenergia 2012
When: Fri, 2012-05-25 09:00
NESCO Town Hall: Security Risk Management Practices for Electric Utilities
When: Wed, 2012-05-30 13:00
Ecwatech 2012
When: Mon, 2012-06-04 09:00
WGC 2012 - 25th World Gas Conference
When: Mon, 2012-06-04 09:00
2nd CSP Optimisation Summit
When: Tue, 2012-06-05 08:00
“Cities will need to be retrofitted, as a whole. There's much work to be done. Vertical farming and other forms of energy/space/agriculture integration will be necessary to further sustain how humans live on this planet.”
“David,Reserves, potential resources and production are not interchangeable, and apocalyptic statements that depend on conflating them are thus fundamentally flawed. Your cogent analysis makes this crucial distinction well. It just needs a bigger audience.”