Connectivity Week discussion of Electric Vehicles

Speaker: Doug Houseman of Enernex

Title: The Electric Vehicle and its Place in Society

Mr. Houseman began his speech with a comment that "Adopting Electric Vehicles may represent one of the largest and controversial changes that we could make as a society... Comparable with eliminating marriage..."

Electric vehicles are becoming real and available from traditional car manufacturers. In rolling out these vehicles there is a need to understand the market for cars, the impact they will have on everything from rest stops on interstate highways to crash test standards.... This panel will look at market projections, changes to Federal infrastructure, real world testing, nascent standards for interoperability, and emerging issues for electric vehicles.

Connectivity Week

Connectivity Week

A very high value event for participants in the Energy Management, Building Controls, Smart Grid or Demand Response industries

Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914 – May 22, 2010), R.I.P.

John Derbyshire gets it right.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/3yqmb45

"When I came to try my own hand at writing a pop-math book, my publisher asked me to try to get blurbs from “mathematicians whose names are well-known to the general public.” That, I told them, is a set with a very small cardinal number. They said to just do my best. I naturally thought of Martin, and wrote him to ask for a blurb. I mentioned, as diffidently as I could, that I had given friendly reviews to a couple of his own books.

I received a very touching letter in reply. Martin’s wife had died a couple of years before, he said, and his grief had made it difficult for him to concentrate. He was trying out an anti-depressant medication, and really wasn’t up to reading a book with full attention just then. However, he had read some of my work, and trusted me sufficiently that I was welcome to write a blurb myself and attach his name to it. I duly did so..."

Department of Leading Indicators

"Why New Hires Bail - And How to Prevent It"

The title of an email that appeared in my INBOX this morning.

Goes along with all the outreach from job boards that I am receiving lately.

I Coulda Had a Wireless Solution

Downtown San Jose now has automated parking meters. See the wireless occupancy sensor pucks embedded in the street? Me either.

The 'Smart' Grid Opportunity - The Counter Argument

There is no 'National' power grid. What are the consequences for Smart Energy and the HAN?

Does Wind Power Make Sense?

Wind Powering America: Wind Maps and Wind Resource Potential Estimates


Does Wind Power Work if the Benefits are Privatized and the Costs Socialized?

The Market for Wireless Sensors Continues to Grow