Thoughts about the relationships between transport and the urban area it serves
I mentioned recently that CBC news story about the couple with solar panels on their roof. The problem up until now has been that technology has been expensive. Sunlight is free but converting it into electricity came in at around $3 per watt. Now a company in California has come up with a way to do the same job for 30c a watt.
I am a recusant transportation economist and regional planner, displaced from England by the abolition of the Greater London Council and a dislike of Thatcherism. Until March of 2004 I worked for the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority on wide variety of policy issues. None of these have been solved since I left, and the region now seems to be likely to abandon its long established growth strategy altogether, as the province is determined to expand its major freeway. I have long advocated more sensible policies to better integrate transport and land use. And this blog is a way to keep up the pressure! It also allows me to vent a bit on related issues.
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This is amazing! And its in production now, not a research idea that we can expect to see in 10 years.
“Right now, the biggest question for Nanosolar is not if its products can work, but rather if it can make enough of them.”
Chris Porter
November 15, 2007 at 8:53 am