…and then there is management…
The American Energy Innovation Council, headed by business leaders such as Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, and Jeff Immelt, CEO of General Electric, argues that the reason for the lack of progress in areas of renewable energy is the low level of federal funding in this area. http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Renewable-Energy/Bill-Gates-and-the-Energy-Research-Dilemma.html I believe that this is true, but [...]
Important Contributions
Some countries make important contributions to Global Energy Transformation by developing free sofwtware and methods for various aspects of renewable energy projects. RET Screen International is an example of one such software that has been developed by the Canadian government. http://www.retscreen.net/ang/home.php Now also on-line communities emerge that support users of this sofware, such as the [...]
Reality Check
The Global Energy Transformation Institute has spent the past three years addressing and offering solutions for large-scale energy issues and system inequities. We have before us now a fascinating alignment of technology, events and interest that places this approach in its most formidable position since its conception. Logic is permeating apathy. Minds and attitudes are [...]
Oil spill and carbon emissions not enough
In The Daily Beast of the 8th of July BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is not enough to create a bipartisan majority in favor of taking America off it’s addiction to oil. No, neither carbon emissions, nor a major oil spill is likely to be enough. The fact that will eventually do [...]
Systems Integrators
One of the areas of interest for GET Institute that did emerge during my trip to the US is the role of systems integrators in the large scale transformation of energy related systems. This has up until now been largely neglected in the debate, but beside the energy technologies and national strategies for energy transformation, [...]
