FROM THE EDITOR

摘要

It seems that advocates of renewable energy have always been possessed of a sometimes outlandish vision of a different way of doing things, a way that is cleaner, cheaper and more efficient.A visit to the Masdar Institute, which in my case coincided with the recent Fourth World Future Energy Summit, proves that such visions are perhaps at last becoming a reality. The sweeping scale of the Masdar Initiative, which aims to advance the development and deployment of renewable energy and clean technologies, certainly presents one of the more grandiose visions of a clean energy, low consumption future. Although only the Masdar Institute is so far complete, conceived as a central part of an entirely new city, it nonetheless stands as a solid reminder of the scale of transformation that is required in how the world uses and sources its energy.