Nine Smart Grid Trends of 2010

Nine Smart Grid Trends of 2010

Our nation’s electricity infrastructure will be upgraded into an efficient, secure, reliable, adaptable machine! But the slow smart grid evolution will be achieved with smaller steps. What does short term smart grid future look like? Read on for current smart grid trends.

Is 2010 the Year of the Electric (and Plugin Hybrid) Car?

Is 2010 the Year of the Electric (and Plugin Hybrid) Car?

2010 will see extended range plug in hybrids — as well as all electric vehicles start to hit the road in significant numbers. The plugin hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) is a primarily an electric vehicle with a small non-electric motor to extend their range; it is more of an electric vehicle and less of a gas powered vehicle than current hybrids. This post examines some of the main players in this emerging electic vehicle sector.

Driving to Destruction: Failure of the Public Transportation Sector to Adapt to Changing Circumstances

Driving to Destruction: Failure of the Public Transportation Sector to Adapt to Changing Circumstances

By Jerry J. Toman, ScM

This, the fourth article in the series The Two-Headed Dragon ~ Energy/Water/Food Scarcity and Climate Change. Top Ten Policies that Feed it, and Two New Technologies that Could Enable us to Slay It and Save the Planet focuses on the issue of our car centric culture; how it has shaped our society and on ways we can shake ourselves free from this unsustainable dependence on spread out cities built around single occupancy vehicles (or SOVs).