Clean Energy Transition

Hasselt City Council's principal aim in introducing free public transport was to promote the new bus system to such a degree that it would catch on and become the natural option for getting around.

New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine signed legislation that calls for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020—approximately a 20% reduction—followed by a further reduction of emissions to 80% below 2006 levels by 2050.

The global electricity consumption for lighting in 2005 is estimated at 2651TWh (terawatthours), i.e. 19% of total global electricity consumption.

"More than a million people die on the roads every year around the world, and people waste a lot of time and money sitting in traffic jams," says IBM researcher Oleg Goldshmidt. "You would like to help with both problems in any way possible."

Against the backdrop of a booming export business, the SolarWorld Group is to build another integrated solar factory (GigaFab) in Freiberg, thereby increasing the capacity of wafer production in Saxony by 500 MW to 1.0 Gigawatt.

This is not a Manhattan Project.

The Citizenrē REnU program is the first to give you the chance to adopt green energy in your home without having to make a huge investment.

Imagine wearing a smart T-shirt or a suit embedded with tiny electronics that can monitor your heart or respiratory function wirelessly. When dirty, you take it off and throw it in the wash or have it dry-cleaned.

Ford Motor Co and power utility Southern California Edison will announce an unusual alliance on Monday aimed at clearing the way for a new generation of rechargeable electric cars, the companies said.

CVT Corp. has developed a high efficiency toroidal CVT (Continuously Variable Transmission) suitable for the heavy-duty vehicle market. The company claims that their product dramatically reduces fuel consumption (as much as 25%).

"Our target is to produce a hydrogen fuel-cell car for $50,000 by 2015," says Peter Froeschle, a senior manager at DaimlerChrysler, which has already spent more than €1bn (£675m) developing its fleet of prototypes, " though we don't expect the operation to be profitable until 2020."

IBM calls the research initiative collaborative driving, and the company says it's designed to prevent accidents and reduce traffic congestion.

The development of flow batteries has reached the stage of demonstration projects. Small- scale products are already available on a commercial basis, while for the larger-scale projects demonstrations have been started. These demonstration projects prove the technology and show that it can be applied on a large scale.

HERE’S one popular vision for saving the planet: Roll out from under the sumptuous hemp-fiber sheets on your bed in the morning and pull on a pair of $245 organic cotton Levi’s and an Armani biodegradable knit shirt. Skip to next paragraph Post Typography Related Tread Lightly, Fly Directly (July 1, 2007) Enlarge This Image Mark Elias/Bloomberg News WORLDLY GOODS The 438-horsepower Lexus luxury hybrid sedan. Stroll from the bedroom in your eco-McMansion, with its photovoltaic solar panels, into the kitchen remodeled with reclaimed lumber. Enter the three-car garage lighted by energy-sipping fluorescent bulbs and slip behind the wheel of your $104,000 Lexus hybrid.

The Oxford Research Group paper, funded by the Joseph Rowntree charitable trust, says that the worldwide nuclear "renaissance" planned by the industry to provide cheap, clean power is a myth.

Video artist Molly Schwartz traces how far food travels from field to fork.

Searching the web it is possible to find the price of a short gallon of regular gasoline for a number of countries around the World. In April the USAToday published a good number of prices provided by the AA Motoring Trust. And the Wikipedia gathers prices reported on the media during the last months. Compiling these numbers one gets Figure 1.

To take a glimpse at what life might be like without today’s reliable supply we take a trip to Africa, Uganda, courtesy of Nokia who have carried out an investigation looking at how people manage to keep their mobile phones charged and maintain some degree of electricity use at home in off-grid parts of the country.

Odyssee is a detailed database on energy efficiency data & indicators, for the EU-15 members and Norway.