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Predicting fashion and replacing solar on The Future, This Week

This week: how COVID-19 reveals how the fashion industry predicts trends, and why the success of solar becomes a problem.

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The Future, This Week 15 June 2018

This week: winter is coming, Uber knows you're tipsy, and take the call.

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The Future, This Week 01 June 2018

This week: putting solar on the map, batteries have a dirty secret, and buses.

Researchers talk to Bruny Islanders who have signed up to an experimental new method of managing energy. Image: Chris Crerar

Tesla’s ‘virtual power plant’ might be second-best to real people power

Our energy system puts consumers more or less at the mercy of business and regulators. What if the future of energy meant putting the power back in the hands of households?