Barbara Elliston, a former Energy Cultures Masters student and much more, was inspired by her time on the project to carry through with her interest in developing ‘Hot PV’.
Here’s an article by her about the product which starts off with her discussion with us at morning tea.
During March 2014 we hosted two of our international collaborators – Malcolm McCulloch and Skip Laitner.
We kept them busy!
Skip is a resource economist with a particular interest in the economics of energy efficiency. He gave talks at Otago University , the Otago Chamber of Commerce ,
There’s good evidence that car use may have peaked and other forms of transport will take its place.
Listener Article by Rebecca Priestley
Originally aired on Nine To Noon, Thursday 27 March 2014
Malcolm McCulloch is the Head of the Energy and Power Group (EPG) at the University of Oxford. The focus of the EPG is developing and commercialising sustainable energy technologies. Malcolm has active research programmes in the three sectors of domestic energy, transport and renewable
Energy makes everything happen. Without electricity and other fuels, the economy wouldn’t produce goods and services, freight and people would stay in one place, and homes would be cold and dark.
Skip Laitner is a resource economist based in Tucson, Arizona. He is in New Zealand for next week’s Energy Conference in Wellington, and in Dunedin to speak at the University of Otago and the Chamber of Commerce.
John A. “Skip” Laitner is a resource economist based in Tucson, Arizona. In this talk, Skip looks at the constraint imposed on the global economy by the inefficient use of energy. During his visit he presented a seminar in which he discusses ways to improve the current level of efficiency and
Members of the Energy Cultures Project are continually reaching out to all those with interest in the Energy Field. Janet Stephenson was recently interviewed by the New Zealand Treasury’s National Infrastructure Unit newsletter. Read her interview here. niu-news-2013-8