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Monday, December 15, 2003 |
[Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends]:The study showed that some of these cities grew by as much as 25 percent during these ten years.
Hmm. Not sure how to insert those cool satelllite pictures here...
9:03:00 PM 
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[SolarAccess, via CleanEdge]: Just
a week after the U.S. Congress failed to gain adequate support for a
broad and contentious energy bill, the UK has passed their own
comprehensive energy legislation.
10 percent by 2010, 15 percent by 2015
Lordy, if the Brits can do it, will the Yanks take this lying down?
4:22:16 PM
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[Austin Chronicle, via CleanEdge]: In
a near-complete turnaround from its public position just a week ago,
Austin Energy has announced plans to adopt specific, highly ambitious,
and undeniably expensive goals for adding solar energy to the Austin
electric and economic mix... 15 megawatts of solar generating capacity
by 2007, escalating to 100 megawatts by 2020.
Institute for Local Self-Reliance (my
old stomping grounds) proposed a municipally driven market formation
strategy for solar electricity more than 20 years ago. Kudos to Austin
for driving it foward -- and showing that energy policy no longer needs
to wait for the Feds.
Better late than never. :-)
And a good time to think about the ways that development of
distributed, renewable energy could be as transformative as the
development of distributed information & communications systems --
a la the Internet.
10:48:18 AM
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