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How big data drives intelligent transportation
Originally published at GreenBiz.com. America has been built and shaped by its ability to move people and goods freely and quickly, fueled by oil. But this “freedom” comes at a cost. Transportation is America’s number-two consumer cost after housing. American drivers pay $8,000 a year for an auto they drive only 4 percent of the time.
Good Natural Gas News Today, But What About Tomorrow?
Recent articles have posited that natural gas is so cheap and plentiful that it not only challenges coal as our dominant source of electricity in the short term, but will also threaten the development of renewables in the long-term.
RMI Alumnus Using History to Change Our Energy Future
Always an environmentalist, Jonah Bea-Taylor’s original career plan was to become a scientist who studied and saved endangered species.
(Video) eLab is Setting the Course for a New Electricity Paradigm
Rapid innovation and change, cooperation and conflict, are occurring at the “seams” in the electricity sector where no single stakeholder or industry group can control the outcome.
American Idol Eat Your Heart Out: DOE Gets Wonky With Solar “Finance Idol”
Back in June, the Department of Energy convened 700 participants at their “SunShot Grand Challenge: Summit and Technology Forum” held in the Denver Convention Center. This event was meant to be the first in a series of DOE “Grand Challenge” events, with the summit focused on the DOE’s solar power capacity growth and cost reduction targets driven by their SunShot Initiative.
