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The 2010 European Business Summit was 30 June - 1 July and included the Presidents' Debate, a high-level energy panel, and a gala dinner.Read more

A member of the Comment:Visions team attended the GovNet Communication’s Science and Innovation 2010 Conference at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in Westminster, London on 16 June. The theme of the event was the need to address the way the UK supports its science and technology talent and turning the support into economic growth...Read more

We’re today here in Berlin for the Platts 2^nd Annual Renewable Energy conference. We met backstage with David R. Jones, editor of Renewable Energy Markets at Platts, and asked him next month’s Comment:Visions discussion question: By how much should we expect renewables to replace fossil fuels over the next 20 years?

I think we’re going to see substantial replacement of conventional power, especially coal, with renewables in the coming years. Many of the coal plants who were built in the 60’s and 70’s are now ending their useful lives. And something’s going to have to replace them.

Nuclear power is one possibility. Although, I think most analysts would agree that’s several decades down the road. What you’re going to need is a combination of different kinds of renewables: wind energy, solar, biomass, hydropower. And some of these that are variable in output, such as wind and solar, can be balanced out with hydropower, with natural gas.

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Getting started This week, Comment:Visions – the partnership between the news channel euronews and the newspaper European Voice and in association with Shell – is re-launching www.commentvisions.com to grant all contributors the ability to connect, message, and debate with each other on-line. To log in, simply scroll to the top of the page and input your Username and Password.

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