Fully one quarter of the remaining cars in the American Solar Challenge are Canadian, including the one from Queen’s University, my own alma matter.
If you do the math, it means that a country with 10% of the North American population (and even less of the proportional number of universities) has 25% of cars remaining in the race. Is this chance or perhaps a reflection of how important renewable energy initiatives are to each country? With Japan and Germany remaining the dominant players in renewable energy, perhaps these are signs of a required wake-up call to American industry and government to put more focus on investments and capital “welcoming” policies for renewable energy…
Meantime, Go Queen’s Go!
Sass
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I think that some people in the US DOE realize that solar has to be in the energy equation as much as possible (there was a recent Science article about this), but yet good policies supporting R&D aren’t showing up in the energy bill because it’s focused so much on oil.
I also get the impression that Canada has very smart people working on renewable energy research but doesn’t follow up enough with research money.
PS. Sass, I do a podcast about energy topics, a number of my listeners are dying for more solar content, would you be interested in doing a quick interview? You could use it as a blog entry as well if you want, if yes then you can contact me at ben@theWatt.com