Visit to Washington DC 19th to 29th of June
I’m going to visit Washington DC 19th to 29th of June for speaking engagements and meetings. I have been invited to speak to faculty of a major university and there will be meetings with a number of key decision makers in international and US energy related organizations and consulting companies. Bookmark It
How Societies Learn – Early Phase
Books about the peak oil phenomenon have sold in volumes of hundreds of thousands. Some of these have described the tremendous technical challenge of transformation, telling readers that it takes decades to develop and implement new energy technologies and fuels on a large scale. Yet, there is very little debate of how we are going [...]
Straightforward and Complex
The Danish Government has taken away all taxes and fees on electric cars until 2015. This has been done in order to make Denmark a leader in electric car systems. Denmark has set the goal to have 400,000 electric cars on its roads in a few years. With a population of five million this may [...]
A Glimpse of the Future
The company Better Place is, based on a well-defined strategy and action plan, building a transportation system of the future. This company is setting its sights on becoming one of the leading service providers in the electric car industry of the future. With generous funding from visionary risk capitalists and a global financial institution, Better [...]
Creative Spearhead Technologies
In order to transform energy systems on a large scale we need to develop and make creative use of spearhead technologies. Of course there are such technologies that are under development, but that have not yet proven their potential in reducing our dependence on energy for economic growth. I came across one such technology a [...]
We need to find ways
New plans for wind farms all over the world are meeting with resistance from inhabitants, environmentalists and other lobby groups. The first US off-shore project in Nantucket Sound is only one example. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/28/cape-cod-wind-farm-first-_n_555211.html We need to find ways to get the priorities right. Increasing the supply of renewable energy in the face of peak oil [...]
The Drop That Erodes the Stone or a Blinding Flash of the Obvious?
More and more people in high level positions recognize the need for a large scale energy transformation program, as I have been telling about in previous postings. The information that this will become necessary may turn out to be like the drop that erodes the stone, and soon enough a fully fledged transformation program will [...]
The Building Blocks of an Energy Transformation Program
The Obama Administration is putting the building blocks of an energy transformation program in place. The RE-ENERGYSE program is a national education program that will train the students that will drive and participate in the energy transformation program of the near future. With the key institutions of a strong coordinated innovation and implementation system in [...]
Peak Oil – A Slow Volcano
Volcanos are a reality. The complex and finite mechanism that is the Earth is doing what it has always done: Operating under its own rules with what it has at its disposal. When pressure builds, it bursts. When something it owns or has cultivated is gone, it’s gone. Comparisons to the Titanic are not overstatements: [...]
Excellent Book “Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution”
In 2009 the book “Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution” appeared, written by the distinguished Professors Charles Weiss of Georgetown University and William B. Bonvillian of the MIT Washington Office. The book deals with the complex issue of how a large scale transformation of energy related systems, or an “Energy Technology Revolution” should be organized, managed [...]
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