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Electric Car’s Achilles’ Heel

Bat­ter­ies for elec­tric cars do have a poor energy den­sity com­pared to gaso­line used for con­ven­tional cars. How­ever, tech­no­log­i­cal advance­ments and avail­abil­ity of dis­trib­uted charg­ing sta­tions might be enough to make this dis­ad­van­tage man­age­able for elec­tric cars.

Squandered Opportunities — How Not To Manage Public Land For Renewable Energy

No renew­able energy is gen­er­ated when the Fed­eral Bureau of Land Man­age­ment “man­ages” sites to gen­er­ate renew­able energy on pub­lic land. And Gold­man Sax seems to be in the non-generating busi­ness — why?

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 […]