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The smart grid world is anything but simple. It encompasses many utility domains and dozens of specialized service areas that need to interoperate. Coupled with economic and regulatory pressures that demand more due diligence and investment foresight than ever before, it’s critical to know and understand the business, regulations and economics and apply this knowledge to optimize utility operations.

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During A Brutal Summer Utilities

Energy Strategies Report

Running On Low Power (Congressional Quarterly Weekly)

Rise In Weather Extremes Threatens Infrastucture (New York Times)

Efficient Reg Efficient Grid

Stakeholder Collaboration

Megatrends

T & D: Editorial

Youtube, iPhone Apps, Kindle and the Utility Franchise

Unbridled Optimism: Is It Too Much of A Good Thing?

 

Predictions for International Security:

The Knowledge Practice Enigma

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This conference brings scholars from different disciplines – political science and international relations, sociology, history, economics, demography and philosophy – into a discussion on the nature of predictions in international security. It will address the following questions. How are claims about the future made in international security, a professional realm that is obsessed with knowing the future? How are these claims “sold” on the public marketplace of ideas? Is anticipating the future about anticipating change?

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Transparent Spray Film Solar Nano Paint EnSol AS has developed a new method to generate green energy out of a thin layer. It doesn’t require any special panel anymore as SolarWindow is a transparent spray film that you can spray to any glass surface to generate electricity.

The benefits:

Paint-able solar cells will indeed bring a revolution in alternative energy arena. Today, we put relatively expensive and uncomfortable solar panels on roofs to produce alternative energy. The new spray-on solar cells will reduce the cost as well and increase the comfort in setting up solar power technology. It can be painted on all surfaces where sunlight is available. You can spray the ultra-thin solar cells on your wall, rooftop, vehicle’s body, aircraft and ships.

According to the researchers, nano-particle inks can generate more energy than traditional solar powers. The South Florida University scientists say such solar cells will be five times efficient than the conventional solar panels. Moreover, many more people will go for green power, thanks to the simplicity in establishment of solar cells. Electronic vehicles can reap the required power while moving.

[Source: Greendiary.com]

SOLAR PAINT TECHNOLOGY EXPLORED
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THE MEGA LIST OF FUTURE PREDICTION
RESEARCH CENTERS

Organizations · Research Centers · Think Tanks

The trend is clear that the major universities, international R&D centers, corporations R&D centers, governments, military industrial complex R&D centers, and great thinkers have and will continue to focus on “Futures Studies” as an interdisciplinary field, studying yesterday’s and today’s changes, and aggregating and analyzing both lay and professional strategies and opinions with respect to tomorrow. It includes analyzing the sources, patterns, and causes of change and stability in an attempt to develop foresight and to map possible futures. Around the world the field is variously referred to as futures studies, strategic foresight, futuristics, futures thinking or futuring. Futures studies and the sub-discipline strategic foresight are the academic field’s most commonly used terms in the English-speaking world, (Source http://www.wikipedia.org/).

Futurepredictions.com has assembled a current list for easy access of just a few of the leading centers which include:

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