Not Worth Fighting For?
I regularly meet people who are aware that the current level of activity to transform global energy systems and the way that these activities are financed and managed are way below what will prove to be necessary to create large volumes of renewable energy. We need to implement technologies for the production, distribution, and use [...]
Doing Nothing, or Very Little, is Not an Option
Despite increasing amounts of information about Peak Oil recently many people seem to think that we are on the right track and that climate change is the big problem. Sorry, we aren’t and it isn’t. We are increasingly falling behind and even people who understand this usually do not understand that we can do something [...]
Why Individual Change is Difficult
It is not easy to change patterns of life on a large scale. We may inform people about the consequences of our current life-styles. Yet, despite the knowledge about what we ought to do, it may be very difficult for people to radically change the way we live. There are several reasons for this: – [...]
Important Work But Need to Accelerate
So far activities to develop and implement renewable fuels and new energy technologies have resulted in small volumes of of these fuels and technologies in most countries. There is a need for large-scale investments in order to accelerate Global Energy Transformation and replace oil and old technologies on a large scale. This will require the [...]
Creating New Business Sectors and Sectors of Society
In most cases in the past sustainability has been driven by existing companies and organizations. Gradually a new research and consulting sector has developed that supplies knowledge and services, but the introduction of lower emission vehicles, unleaded fuel and white-goods free of freon have not created the need for large numbers of new companies or [...]
Institutional Factors, or ”Orgware” as a Pre-requisite for Energy Systems Transformation
In the discussion of the pre-requisites for the transfer of technologies from one environment, or country/region, to another, three key factors need to be taken into account. Similarly, in order to implement new energy technology on a large scale in a country the same set of key factors seem to be relevant: – Hardware – [...]
