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Peak car ? 27 Aug 2013 | 06:50 pm
The Australian has an article on declining interest amongst Gen Y for getting a drivers licence - Driving me crazy: Getting a licence a low priority for Generation Y. In 1991, of NSW kids aged 20-24,...
Electric Vehicles and the Future of Personal Transportation 27 Aug 2013 | 01:31 pm
IEEE Spectrum has an interesting interview with former head of R&D for General Motors, Larry Burns, talking about increasing the energy efficiency of transport - Larry Burns on Electric Vehicles and t...
Argentina: energy boom or energy cliff ? 26 Aug 2013 | 06:48 pm
Resilience has an article on oil and gas production in Argentina (which indirectly explains why the Chileans are so interested in large scale solar power now), including a look at the reputedly large ...
Japanese Solar Energy Soars 26 Aug 2013 | 06:39 pm
National Geographic has an article on the solar energy boom in Japan - Japan Solar Energy Soars, But Grid Needs to Catch Up. Hokkaido, Japan's second largest and northernmost island, is known for its...
Energy costs: Business-as-usual no cheaper than 100% renewables ? 26 Aug 2013 | 06:30 pm
ReNew Economy has a pair of posts on a report from the Australian government into transitioning to 100% renewable energy - Renewables future no more costly than fossil fuels and Energy costs: Business...
German Biogas Monitoring Report 2013 25 Aug 2013 | 11:12 am
One of the pillars of the German renewable energy program is biogas. the German Energy blog has a post on a report looking at progress on this front - Biogas Monitoring Report 2013: Targets Difficult ...
Upcycling: Driving sustainable transformation via the power of design 25 Aug 2013 | 06:31 am
William McDonough (of "Cradle to Cradle" fame) has an article in The Guardian looking at progress in improving industrial production processes - Driving sustainable transformation via the power of des...
Separating fact from fiction in Germany’s renewables revolution 23 Aug 2013 | 06:05 pm
Amory Lovins has an article at Renew Economy on Germany's switch to - Separating fact from fiction in Germany’s renewables revolution. I recently wrote about—and debunked—the renewables “disinformati...
The north’s future is electrifying: powering Asia with renewables 23 Aug 2013 | 05:29 pm
The Conversation has an article proposing an Asian supergrid supplied with renewable energy from Australia that reminded by a lot of the Grenatec proposal that has been floating around for a while now...
Tim from ECHELON, glimpsed back in 2000 23 Aug 2013 | 05:12 pm
Bruce Sterling has a slightly self-congratulatory post quoting his book "Distraction" published back in 2000 - Tim from ECHELON, glimpsed back in 2000. Nowadays Tim from ECHELON goes by the handle “T...
