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Google Energy to start disrupting the utility industry?

by Tom Raftery on January 10, 2010 · 20 comments

in utilities

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There is no doubt about it but Google is a disruptive company.
First Google disrupted search, then advertising, then video (with their acquisition of YouTube), and then Office applications with the launch and continued development of Google Apps for Domains. Most recently Google has disrupted the mobile phone industry, first with the [...]

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European Future Energy Forum – opening session

by Tom Raftery on June 9, 2009 · 3 comments

in energy

The first European Future Energy Forum kicked off this morning in Bilbao.
The opening session in the main auditorium was addressed by the Chair of the World Future Council, Bianca Jagger, the CEO of the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (ADFEC) which is mandated to undertake and drive the Masdar Initiative, Dr Sultan Ahmed Al [...]

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Great speech by President-Elect Obama on Energy

by Tom Raftery on November 19, 2008 · 0 comments

in energy

Said in the voice of Kent Brockman:
I for one welcome our new American overlord
This has to be one of the most hopeful pronouncements to come out of the US for decades.

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The cheaper the electricity the lower its carbon footprint!

by Tom Raftery on November 18, 2008 · 4 comments

in energy

Photo Credit Milton CJ
I was speaking at the EventoBlog España conference on Saturday and I made the comment that electricity’s carbon footprint tends to increase as it becomes more expensive.
In follow-up questions, I failed to explain well what I meant so I will attempt to do so here.
Electricity pricing (on the wholesale market) is a [...]

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Space based solar power?

by Tom Raftery on September 19, 2008 · 2 comments

in solar

I saw an announcement the other day on the National Space Society’s website about a breakthrough in Space-based solar power.
Normally the stuff of science fiction, it turns out that John C. Mankins, former manager of NASA’s Exploration Systems Research and Technology Program, performed a milestone demonstration of the critical technology enabling Space Solar Power: long-distance, [...]

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HP teaming with Xtreme Energetics to produce cheaper, more efficient cheaper solar

by Tom Raftery on June 5, 2008 · 6 comments

in solar

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James and I had lunch the other day with Simon Wardley.
During the course of what turned out to be a wide-ranging discussion Simon brought up the topic of flexible solar panels. I was delighted to read today then that Xtreme Energetics and HP are teaming up to produce
a solar energy system [...]

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