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Energy Elephants: The Historical Shift in Automotive Innovation

Evolution of Electric and Hybrid Cars Some time ago I visited a private automobile museum in The Netherlands, together with our chairman Julf Helsingius; himself a collector of rare Land Rovers. Seeing how a single patron had preserved the history of the automobile industry was one thing, but those electric, gas and hybrid car models […]

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Åland’s Renewable Energy Revolution: A Small Region with Big Ideas

A few weeks ago I returned again to Åland, the Finnish, autonomous region between Finland and Sweden. Their path and self-governance was already agreed by the League of Nations before WW2, and they’ve since fared well in business, including tourism, shipping and e.g. speciality agriculture produce. The reason for my visit in their capital Mariehamn […]

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Smart Grid reliability, delays

Fred Baker had a crisp message to a combined Energy and ICT audience: Make new mistakes in the Smart Grid, not the ones already witnessed in the IPv4/IPv6 Internet. Representatives from ETSI (standardization organization in the field of information and communications) and ITU-T (Telecommunication Standardization Sector) were quick to point out that in many cases, […]

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Warming Helsinki with energy efficient Data Centers

Our favorite IT provider Academica is now constructing one of the world’s most energy efficient data centers. But not only that, it is also the first one with a full heat recovery system. The realization of this projects happens in close cooperation with the local energy utility, Helsinki Energy. In other words, warmth from the […]