Ever driven across North Dakota in August? North Dakota is the US State located top, center on the wind potential map (shown here). Step out of the car and the wind's fingers rip at your shirt buttons, threatening to tear them off. Day after day, wheat stems toss like waves in a storm.
Ever driven across North Dakota in August? North Dakota is the US State located top, center on the wind potential map (shown here). Step out of the car and the wind's fingers rip at your shirt buttons, threatening to tear them off. Day after day, wheat stems toss like waves in a storm.
In a previous post (link), I covered how BIM (Building Information Modeling) was changing the Architectural, Engineering & Construction (AEC) industry, and also provided insights on the market drivers that green technology vendors in this space should be aware of, to leverage BIM for growth. In this column I will cover some insights on growth strategies for the federal buildings sector, as well as general growth strategy insights from key thought leaders in the market.
A study sponsored by the US Department of Energy, and overseen by a board of outside advisers from the wind power industry, projects that it is possible to expand the average national output of wind generated electricity from the present 1.0+%- to the 20%-level over the next 22 years: an order of magnitude more wind power in the USA, in two decades.
There is a true story about reindeer introduced to a remote northern island in the Canadian Arctic.
Image by Jurgen Howaldt
I cannot remember the source or all the details, but here is the gist and how it applies to us today, anthropomorphized. There were no wolves and there was plenty of lichen for the reindeer to eat, so the reindeer flourished. If the reindeer thought as we do, they might well have thought that life was grand, that they lived in a utopia, that they had solved most of the worst problems their ancestors had faced.
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