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Join us at this high level conference at the seat of power in London to discover what industry and academia are working on to provide future generations with clean and sustainable transportation for cities and beyond.

Admission Fee: 
20% Early-bird discount available now
Date: 
16-8-12

Leading geophysicists predict that peak-oil is either currently occuring, or will have occured by 2015. Meanwhile, demand for oil continues to increase at an extraordinairy rate, with increasingly negative social and ecological consequences. Are you ready to switch?


 

Since 2005 Oxford City council has had a Climate Change Action Plan and are committed to transforming Oxford into a sustainable city. The council has signed up to the Nottingham Declaration on Climate Change and council buildings are now on a green electricity tariff. The council have also been investigating community-scale wind energy developments on council owned land.

The Building Research Establishment (BRE) is an independent and impartial, research-based consultancy, testing and training organisation, offering expertise in every aspect of the built environment and associated industries. BRE help clients create better, safer and more sustainable products, buildings, communities and businesses - and they support the innovation needed to achieve this.

Leading geophysicists predict that peak-oil is either currently occuring, or will have occured by 2015. Meanwhile, demand for oil continues to increase at an extraordinairy rate, with increasingly negative social and ecological consequences. Are you ready to switch?


 

Biofuels
7% (30 votes)
Electric
40% (167 votes)
Hydrogen
41% (173 votes)
Petrol
3% (14 votes)
Diesel
6% (24 votes)
Other
3% (14 votes)
Total votes: 422
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Firewinder's patent pending technology elegantly transforms wind into light to enable the visualisation of the abundantly free energy in the wind as a mesmerising, endlessly upward spiralling helix of light.