Overcoming Overuse by Mats R Larsson at Amazon
The book “Overcoming Overuse – Energy Transformation for a World Gone Fad” is available at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk: http://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Overuse-Energy-Transformation-World/dp/0557211883/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267186967&sr=1-1 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Overcoming-Overuse-Energy-Transformation-World/dp/0557211883/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267187027&sr=1-1 “An increasing number of experts argue that we need to cut down on our energy use. Then why has so little activity started to actually solve this problem? The answer is that we need strong [...]
Prosperity Without Growth – UK report
The think tank closely related to the British Government, the Sustainable Development Commission, has published the report “Prosperity Without Growth”, analysing the central role that economic growth has taken in our economy and the opportunity to improve sustainability by reducing the pressure to maintain economic growth. While this is an important issue, and the report [...]
US Innovation and Energy Transformation Program
Now the business and political landscape that surrounds energy transformation is changing rapidly. The United States Department of Energy has started a large scale energy transformation program, which has started by analyzing the transformation needs and opportunities sector by sector. This is an extremely important first step in the right direction, and it is completely [...]
Pride in Past Achievements
When I went to Greece a few years back and saw the Parthenon, the almost impossible architecture that is supposed to make the building look the same size from all directions, or something, I did not understand how come modern day Greeks are not even able to build a road with a straight shoulder. If [...]
Managed Change takes away “mysticism”
GET Institute argues in favor of a structured approach towards energy systems transformation. A large scale program of managed change, consisting of a number of large projects in different areas, such as transportation, renewable energy and fuels, industrial processes would require that many current experts contribute their specific knowledge in a structured way so that [...]
Obama invests in nuclear
President Obama has after three decades re-started the nuclear energy program of The United States. An important step towards securing the energy supply of the future. Regardless, there is still a need to focus efforts on the development of renewable fuels on a large scale. In addition we need to reduce our use on energy [...]
Bill Gates: Climate Change is a Bigger Issue than Inventing New Vaccines
In his recent TED speech, Bill Gates argues that climate change is a bigger issue than inventing new vaccines, and that we will need new “energy miracles” to cope with this challenge and develop and implement the necessary new energy technologies of the future. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/12/bill-gates-ted-speech-201_n_461034.html Bookmark It
GET Institute – A “Next Step Organization”
GET this: Global Energy Transformation Institute works with identifying The Next Step toward large scale energy transformation. In a complex environment with many opportunities we focus on finding The Next Step together with the organization that we are working with. Many organizations, regions and whole countries have successfully taken first and second steps. Now it [...]
Game Changing Technologies Needed – On Earth
According to an article in The New York Times of today, President Obama calls upon NASA to develop “game changing” technologies for future ventures into space. Such developement programs need to be “focused and adequately financed”. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/opinion/09tue1.html Global Energy Transformation Institute exists to communicate that we need focused and adequately financed programs for the development [...]
Market leadership through large sales volumes
In order for European and US companies to become global leaders in clean technology areas these countries and areas not only need to finance research and development on a large scale. They also need to create large markets for the products that are developed in the research projects. Research projects need to focus on getting [...]
