A Laboratory of the Future Human Experience
Norway just hit 82% plugin vehicle new car sales in September 2020. This raises the question: “Why are 18% of the purchases non-plugin vehicles?” That got me dreaming up ideas for how to get a country from moderate EV market share (5–10%, for example) to 100% EV market share. Perhaps some of those ideas could be effective in Norway now, and other countries later as they get closer and closer to a high percentage of plugin vehicles.
Three companies want to test out a pilot project in Northern England by 2028.
Three natural gas distributors issued a report this week detailing plans to convert the UK’s residential gas system to a hydrogen delivery system. UK firms Northern Gas Networks and Cadent, as well as Norwegian gas firm Equinor, wrote that the proposal (PDF) was technically feasible. They also suggested an initial roll-out of the program to 3.7 million homes and 400,000 businesses in Northern England could commence as soon as 2028.
Continue reading… “Natural gas firms have a proposal to convert home heating to hydrogen”
The vessel will be able to scoop up around five tons of plastic every day, and then melt it down – all in yet another private effort to help clean up the ocean.
Continue reading… “Norwegian billionaire funds worlds largest yacht to scoop up plastic”
Electric cars in Norway clog bus lanes.
Norway is a major and rich oil-producing country, but Norway’s ministers are under increasing public pressure to reduce perks and tax breaks for booming electric car sales.
Continue reading… “Norway’s boom in electric car sales has become a big problem”
National Library of Norway
All of the books in the National Library of Norway’s collection will be digitized. They will process the text to make it searchable and make them available to read online.
Continue reading… “Norway digitizing all of its books and will make them free to read online”
Black Metal musicians commonly wear facepaint.
Black metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that, to an extent, originated in Norway. It’s gaining increasing popularity across the world and is an emerging symbol of Norwegian culture. So to ensure that Norway’s official representatives can speak intelligently about it, the government is training diplomats on the subject…
Continue reading… “Norway Trains Its Diplomats in Black Metal”
The discovery of a “sealed” Stone Age house site from 3500 BC has stirred great excitement among archaeologists from Norway’s Museum of Cultural History at the University in Oslo. The settlement site at Hamresanden, close to Kristiansand’s airport at Kjevik in Southern Norway, looks like it was covered by a sandstorm, possibly in the course of a few hours.
The catastrophe for the Stone Age occupants has given archaeologists an untouched “mini-Pompeii,” containing both whole and reparable pots…
Continue reading… “Archaeologists Find ‘Mini-Pompeii’”
Continue reading… “Norway’s Turbine City Concept Should Be The Future of Energy and Tourism”
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Things change in a year but do you notice it? Here’s a video about the forest, the changes in one year.
Continue reading… “One Year In 40 Seconds Video”
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Crazy Norwegian girls teach their dog how to basejump! (with english subtitles!) Mad scientist type project! Aro the dog basejumps from a very tall building in Oslo.
Continue reading… “Base Jumping Dog”
Norwegian King Harald the Fifth has just knighted … a penguin! That’s right, a penguin named Nils Olav, the honorary member and mascot of the King’s Guard since 1972, is not Sir Nils Olav to you:
Continue reading… “Penguin Knighted In Norway”
The Sintef Group, a research company based in Trondheim, Norway, announced that it’s designing a robot based on snakes.
The 1.5-meter long robots, which are made of aluminum, are being designed to inspect and clean complicated industrial pipe systems that are typically narrow and inaccessible to humans. The intelligent robots have multiple joints to enable them to twist vertically and climb up through pipe systems to locate leaks in water systems, inspect oil and gas pipelines and clean ventilation systems.
Continue reading… “Scandinavian Scientists Designing Robotic Snakes”
