The importance of competent and honest people
A Swedish investment bank HQ Bank has recently lost its permit by the government to run a bank. The reason is its too high risk level. One board member, Catharina Lagerstam, was appointed in April and she did an independent valuation of the holdings by the board meeting in May, at which she said that [...]
A Strategy and a Plan that Combines Many Aspects
A debate is on-going in the New York Times about the future of energy in the US. Bill Gates wrote one article that focused on the need to increase the spending on energy technology research. This article was followed by a reply written by Richard Rosen, a senior fellow of the Tellus Institute in Boston. [...]
Storage of Electricity From Renewable Sources
One of the issues that arise as countries invest in technologies to generate electricity from renewable sources is the need to store electricity in order to bridge the times when there is no wind or no sunshine. During strong winds there are also large volumes of energy that are currently lost. There are numerous ideas [...]
Need to work out the details
Too few resources are invested in the development of strategies for Global Energy Transformation and we spend too much time discussing the technical merits of single technology ideas, without having made an overall map of the transformation landscape. When we discuss smart grids, for instance, we have not yet developed an overall picture of the [...]
The GE Ecomagination Challenge
GETI was pleased to be able to take advantage of the GE Ecomagination Challenge and submit our idea for developing systems integrators. If you’re not familiar with it, you can see the GETI entry here. http://challenge.ecomagination.com/ct/ct_a_view_idea.bix?c=ideas&idea_id=3FE45133-213F-4C3B-AA0E-8FDFD0E3083B. Perhaps for the many energy concerned of you, you may want to submit your own entry. If you feel [...]
