The opening ceremony is hours away and sporting events have begun for the 2012 summer Olympics in London. Besides a life-long joy at exposure to new sport, great sports feats, and the basic global harmony concept of the Olympic games, the London games caught my attention for the organizers’ plans to make it totally green. […]
A challenge of Olympic proportions …
July 26th, 2012 · Comments Off on A challenge of Olympic proportions …
Tags: business practice · carbon offsets · Energy · Global Warming · green · greenwashing
The power of niche: Solar displacing diesel for a nation’s electricity supply
July 26th, 2012 · Comments Off on The power of niche: Solar displacing diesel for a nation’s electricity supply
Writ large, around the world, liquid fuel (generally diesel) has a relatively small role in providing electricity and thus the “oil” and “electricity” domains have a minimal overlap. There are, however, exceptions that are notable generally in being “islands”. These islands can be temporal (power supply disruption leading to use of generators while the electric […]
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