by JAK | Jan 16, 2013 | big ideas, industry futures, video
One of the questions that comes up when researching solar power is that as all of the generation comes during daylight hours it is off-peak and less useful. In Australia daytime energy use is actually peak because of air conditioning and I suspect the changing work...
by JAK | Jan 15, 2013 | big ideas, industry futures, TEDx
One of the aspects of solar power generation that I have been interested in is whether there are any real economies of scale. For example having hundreds of thousands of 4kwh household units has advantages to those householders but what if solar was used to build an...
by JAK | Jan 13, 2013 | big ideas, culture
Nate Silver as many of you will know is a math pundit who founded the fivethirtyeight blog now over at the NY Times. That blog was all about the presidential election and over there he used a series of polls to predict (very successfully) the results of both the 2008...
by JAK | Jan 11, 2013 | culture, TED, TEDx
Today 70+ speakers were announced for TED 2013 to be held at the end of Feb in Long Beach. “This line-up features the largest number of speakers in TED’s history — more than 70. That’s because many of the talks this year are shorter. Often 12 minutes...
by JAK | Jan 10, 2013 | big ideas, development, industry futures
New Zealand has an overall objective of achieving “90 percent of our electricity generation coming from renewable energy sources by 2025, providing this does not affect security of supply.” So how have we been doing? Currently we are at 79% and making good...
