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Will Wind Become Competitive?

There are many wind energy projects under way world wide. But the cost of wind energy is still not com­pet­i­tive with the cur­rent cost of energy pro­duced by fos­sil fuels. Envi­ron­men­tal costs are still not accounted for.

When We Measure The Wrong Things

GDP is a poor met­ric for eval­u­at­ing invest­ments to increase effi­ciency. Every­thing else equal, more effi­ciency means that GDP is reduced. This is totally con­trary to any lean man­age­ment approach.

Germany Plans To Switch To 100% Alternative Energy By 2050

A new study issued by the Ger­man “Umwelt­bun­de­samt” comes to the con­clu­sion that Ger­many should be able to switch energy pro­duc­tion to 100% renew­able sources within 40 years. Inter­est­ingly the head of the agency, Jochen Flas­barth, states that this is doable with tech­nol­ogy that is avail­able today. Build­ing the nec­es­sary infra­struc­ture would need deci­sive action […]

Setting Goals Not Methods

In a press release today Google is said to lead the charge against tougher energy effi­ciency stan­dards for data cen­ters. Google? Is this not the com­pany tout­ing green ini­tia­tives and try­ing to not be evil? It is worth to dig a lit­tle deeper into this issue. Data cen­ters house tons of heat pro­duc­ing com­puter equip­ment, and […]

The Cost Quagmire

Wher­ever you stand on the global warm­ing debate, one thing is indis­putable: Car­bon diox­ide con­tent in the earth’s atmos­phere increased over the last 100 years by more than 25%. And again, wher­ever you stand on the global warm­ing debate, it should be clear that such a change in CO2 does trig­ger changes. Whether you think […]