Connie Hedegaard, the European Commissioner for Climate Action in the European Commission since February 2010, gave a great keynote speech at the World Future Energy Summit (part of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week) a few days ago. Below are two videos of her speech and a text summary of the key points … [continued]
The 6th Annual World Future Energy Summit (WFES) and first ever Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW) just wrapped up. With approximately 30,000 participants from 150 countries attending ADSW, including a couple of us from CleanTechnica, the event brought in world leaders of all sorts — queens, princes, presidents, other top policymakers, … [continued]
Google’s self-driving cars this month passed 300,000 miles traveled. A lot more than I would have guessed. Also, incidentally, I ran across one of these interesting vehicles while visiting Mountain View (home of Google) and the surrounding area just a couple weeks ago. Of course, that’s the most likely … [continued]
Sometime ago, I was asked in a comment how common photovoltaic systems are in Germany today. So, I thought I would make a little video to answer that question once more. Some of the clips were recorded in April, but most of them just a few days ago. Since the … [continued]
