This document discusses resource mapping and assessments for renewable energy in the Clean Energy Corridor region. It outlines the benefits of mapping resources such as lowest costs, high renewable energy shares, and dealing with variability. Climate zones and water content classifications are presented. The document discusses identifying resource synergies and conducting intense work in the region to identify resource maps and measurement points from literature. A step-by-step analysis process is proposed moving from data to local measurements to increase private sector investment and efforts. Examples of resource mapping for winds and solar in East Africa are shown.
Ahmed almhabو Regional evapotranspiration of Date using Landsat and M-SEBALAyoub Almhab
Date is an important cash crop in the eastern part of Yemen.
Water management for date plantations in arid areas has become an important aspect for food production. Point measurement of water needed by one Date plantation cannot provide accurate estimate for all the orchards in a county: the point measurements are costly and unpractical. A new approach is suggested to estimate water requirement by date at a county scale. The proposed technique used LANDSAT-ETM data and M-SEBAL (Modified - Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land) to estimate evapotranspiration over date plantation in wadi Hadhramout- basin central of Yemen.
The M-SEBAL model estimates evapotranspiration (ET) using the energy balance equations, for which the surface temperature and reflectance data from ETM image data and meteorological data from a local weather station. The average relative error between estimated and observed ET is 10.6%, and the average absolute error is 0.35 mm/day. This proposed technique has the potential to provide guidelines for various users, including government agencies on how to evaluate current water-usage schemes.
Ahmed almhabو Regional evapotranspiration of Date using Landsat and M-SEBALAyoub Almhab
Date is an important cash crop in the eastern part of Yemen.
Water management for date plantations in arid areas has become an important aspect for food production. Point measurement of water needed by one Date plantation cannot provide accurate estimate for all the orchards in a county: the point measurements are costly and unpractical. A new approach is suggested to estimate water requirement by date at a county scale. The proposed technique used LANDSAT-ETM data and M-SEBAL (Modified - Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land) to estimate evapotranspiration over date plantation in wadi Hadhramout- basin central of Yemen.
The M-SEBAL model estimates evapotranspiration (ET) using the energy balance equations, for which the surface temperature and reflectance data from ETM image data and meteorological data from a local weather station. The average relative error between estimated and observed ET is 10.6%, and the average absolute error is 0.35 mm/day. This proposed technique has the potential to provide guidelines for various users, including government agencies on how to evaluate current water-usage schemes.
Floods can be hugely destructive, but they also offer opportunities for farmers and fisherfolk. If their frequency and extent can be measured, then we will be better able to mitigate costs and maximise benefits. Digital geospatial flood inundation mapping is a powerful new approach for flood response that shows floodwater extent and depth on the land surface. IWMI research will evaluate this new technology and develop a prototype flood inundation map for South Asia. Also discussed is a project to flood map and model in a spate irrigation system in Sudan.
Evaluating Satellite Precipitation Error Propagation in Runoff Simulations of...Yiwen Mei
This study investigates the error characteristics of six quasi-global satellite precipitation products and associated error propagation in flow simulations for 16 mountainous basin scales (areas ranging from 255 to 6967 km2) and two different periods (May-Aug & Sep-Nov) in northeast Italy. The satellite products used in this study are 3B42-CCA, 3B42-V7, CMORPH and PERSIANN with their respect gauge-adjusted products. To evaluate the error propagation in flood simulations satellite precipitation datasets were used to force a gauge-calibrated hydrologic model to simulate runoff for the 16 basins, and comparing them to the gauge-driven simulated hydrographs for a range of moderate to high flood events spanning a nine-year period (2002 to 2009). Statistics describing the systematic and random error, the temporal similarity and error ratios between precipitation and runoff are presented.
Nile-Goblet software: Mapping rainwater management strategies made easy for s...ILRI
Poster prepared by Catherine Pfeifer, An Notenbaert and Carlos Quiros for the ILRI@40 Workshop, Addis Ababa, 7 November 2014.
Most of the agriculture in the Ethiopian part of the Nile Basin depends is rain-fed. Its low productivity can be explained to a large extend by the lack of appropriate rainwater management.
Promoting rainwater management practices in Ethiopia is not new, however they have been promoted :
regardless of the bio-physical and socio-economic context without considering local expertise without accounting for synergies between rainwater management practices at landscape scale
Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service - An introductionCopernicus ECMWF
Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service: An introduction by
Vincent-Henri Peuch, Head of Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service provided for the ECMWF Copernicus Services Info Day, Brussels, 2 February 2015.
How is the climate changing? Climate monitoring based on observations Copernicus ECMWF
"How is the climate changing? Climate monitoring based on observations" presentation prepared by Dick Dee and Adrian Simmons, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) for the Common Future Conference session on Copernicus Climate Change Service: a European answer to Climate Change Challenges held in Paris (France), 09 July 2015.
New restoration commitments under initiative 20 x 20CIFOR-ICRAF
Presentation by Marcos Sossai at “Putting pledges into practice in Latin America – an early assessment of Initiative 20×20 from science, policy and finance perspectives” Discussion Forum on the second day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. For more information go to: www.landscapes.org.
Cost analysis Toolkit for In-situ Lunar Exploration. Presented to IAC 2006, b...Bijal (Bee) Hayes-Thakore
The Fertile Moon team project at the Masters in Space Studies (2006, International Space University) set out to evaluate the economic feasibility of lunar In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) Technologies for hydrogen, oxygen, and water production by creating a model from an interdisciplinary perspective. This study compares the supply of resources produced in-situ on the Moon with those supplied from Earth and makes recommendations based on various scenarios. Presented on behalf of the Team by Bee Thakore at the IAC in 2006. Extended version of the presentation is available on request.
There is a small movement for change in development practices
Landscape Architect Ian McHargleads with new ideas for land planning
Understanding about the environment
Integration with environmental sciences
Addressing human adaptations to the environment
“How can big data help us live in a changing climate?” by Vincent-Henri Peuch...Copernicus ECMWF
Presentation given by Vincent-Henri Peuch, Head of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service at the Copernicus COP21 Briefing Event, London, UK, 10 November 2015.
Upcoming Datasets: Global wind map, Jake Badger ( Risoe DTU)IRENA Global Atlas
Upcoming Datasets: Global wind map. A presentation by Jake Badger ( Risoe DTU) during the Global Atlas side event which held at the World Future Energy Summit in 2014
Progresses on the Global Solar and Wind Atlas, Data Quality Information Frame...IRENA Global Atlas
Progresses on the Global Solar and Wind Atlas, Data Quality Information Framework and concept for the Global Renewable Energy Atlas.
A presentation by Nicolas Fichaux (IRENA) during the Global Atlas side event which held at the World Future Energy Summit in 2014
Floods can be hugely destructive, but they also offer opportunities for farmers and fisherfolk. If their frequency and extent can be measured, then we will be better able to mitigate costs and maximise benefits. Digital geospatial flood inundation mapping is a powerful new approach for flood response that shows floodwater extent and depth on the land surface. IWMI research will evaluate this new technology and develop a prototype flood inundation map for South Asia. Also discussed is a project to flood map and model in a spate irrigation system in Sudan.
Evaluating Satellite Precipitation Error Propagation in Runoff Simulations of...Yiwen Mei
This study investigates the error characteristics of six quasi-global satellite precipitation products and associated error propagation in flow simulations for 16 mountainous basin scales (areas ranging from 255 to 6967 km2) and two different periods (May-Aug & Sep-Nov) in northeast Italy. The satellite products used in this study are 3B42-CCA, 3B42-V7, CMORPH and PERSIANN with their respect gauge-adjusted products. To evaluate the error propagation in flood simulations satellite precipitation datasets were used to force a gauge-calibrated hydrologic model to simulate runoff for the 16 basins, and comparing them to the gauge-driven simulated hydrographs for a range of moderate to high flood events spanning a nine-year period (2002 to 2009). Statistics describing the systematic and random error, the temporal similarity and error ratios between precipitation and runoff are presented.
Nile-Goblet software: Mapping rainwater management strategies made easy for s...ILRI
Poster prepared by Catherine Pfeifer, An Notenbaert and Carlos Quiros for the ILRI@40 Workshop, Addis Ababa, 7 November 2014.
Most of the agriculture in the Ethiopian part of the Nile Basin depends is rain-fed. Its low productivity can be explained to a large extend by the lack of appropriate rainwater management.
Promoting rainwater management practices in Ethiopia is not new, however they have been promoted :
regardless of the bio-physical and socio-economic context without considering local expertise without accounting for synergies between rainwater management practices at landscape scale
Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service - An introductionCopernicus ECMWF
Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service: An introduction by
Vincent-Henri Peuch, Head of Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service provided for the ECMWF Copernicus Services Info Day, Brussels, 2 February 2015.
How is the climate changing? Climate monitoring based on observations Copernicus ECMWF
"How is the climate changing? Climate monitoring based on observations" presentation prepared by Dick Dee and Adrian Simmons, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) for the Common Future Conference session on Copernicus Climate Change Service: a European answer to Climate Change Challenges held in Paris (France), 09 July 2015.
New restoration commitments under initiative 20 x 20CIFOR-ICRAF
Presentation by Marcos Sossai at “Putting pledges into practice in Latin America – an early assessment of Initiative 20×20 from science, policy and finance perspectives” Discussion Forum on the second day of the Global Landscapes Forum 2015, in Paris, France alongside COP21. For more information go to: www.landscapes.org.
Cost analysis Toolkit for In-situ Lunar Exploration. Presented to IAC 2006, b...Bijal (Bee) Hayes-Thakore
The Fertile Moon team project at the Masters in Space Studies (2006, International Space University) set out to evaluate the economic feasibility of lunar In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) Technologies for hydrogen, oxygen, and water production by creating a model from an interdisciplinary perspective. This study compares the supply of resources produced in-situ on the Moon with those supplied from Earth and makes recommendations based on various scenarios. Presented on behalf of the Team by Bee Thakore at the IAC in 2006. Extended version of the presentation is available on request.
There is a small movement for change in development practices
Landscape Architect Ian McHargleads with new ideas for land planning
Understanding about the environment
Integration with environmental sciences
Addressing human adaptations to the environment
“How can big data help us live in a changing climate?” by Vincent-Henri Peuch...Copernicus ECMWF
Presentation given by Vincent-Henri Peuch, Head of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service at the Copernicus COP21 Briefing Event, London, UK, 10 November 2015.
Upcoming Datasets: Global wind map, Jake Badger ( Risoe DTU)IRENA Global Atlas
Upcoming Datasets: Global wind map. A presentation by Jake Badger ( Risoe DTU) during the Global Atlas side event which held at the World Future Energy Summit in 2014
Progresses on the Global Solar and Wind Atlas, Data Quality Information Frame...IRENA Global Atlas
Progresses on the Global Solar and Wind Atlas, Data Quality Information Framework and concept for the Global Renewable Energy Atlas.
A presentation by Nicolas Fichaux (IRENA) during the Global Atlas side event which held at the World Future Energy Summit in 2014
Demonstration of the Global Atlas in the ECOWAS region.IRENA Global Atlas
Demonstration of the Global Atlas in the ECOWAS region.
A presentation by Nicola Bugatti and Jafaru AbdulRahman (ECREEE), during the Global Atlas side event which held at the World Future Energy Summit in 2014
Renewable Resource Monitoring & Mapping (RRMM) in Saudi ArabiaIRENA Global Atlas
A presentation by the King Abdulazeez Center for Atomic and Renewable Energy (K.A.CARE) at the IRENA GCC workshop. The workshop took place in June, 2013 and was hosted by the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research.
A presentation by the National Renewable Energy Center of Spain (CENER) at the IRENA GCC workshop. The workshop took place in June, 2013 and was hosted by the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research.
On the drawing board: tools concepts for the Global Atlas Daniel Getman ( NREL)IRENA Global Atlas
On the drawing board: tools concepts for the Global Atlas. A presentation by Daniel Getman (NREL), during the Global Atlas side event which held at the World Future Energy Summit in 2014
Global Atlas for Renewable Energy - application to MauritaniaIRENA Global Atlas
One of the key activities in IRENA is the development of renewable readiness assessments (RRAs). An RRA is a holistic assessment of conditions for renewable energy deployment in a country, and the actions necessary to further improve these conditions. An RRA is a rapid assessment of how a country can increase readiness and overcome the main barriers to the deployment of renewable energy technologies. It covers all services (transport, heat, electricity and motive power), and sources of renewable energy, with countries selecting those of relevance. The RRA comprises a process and a methodology that includes completing a set of templates and a final report. On the occasion of the RRA Mauritania, the Global Atlas was presented, as a potential supplier of data, data infrstructure and education for zoning renewable energy hotspots.
Renewable Energy comes from sources that do not deplete over years such as sun, wind, oceans and plants. There are numerous ways to convert primary energy forms into consumable forms of energy including heat and electricity; however, due to the intermittent nature of many renewable sources, the issue of storing electricity is of particular importance. Further its worth to note renewable energy technologies do NOT necessarily compete with each other purely based on price. It depends on geographic location, availability of space, capital costs, operational costs, and environmental concerns.
Harvesting wind energy in Greenland: a project for Europe and a huge step tow...Université de Liège (ULg)
Current global environmental challenges require vigorous and diverse actions in the energy sector. One solution that has recently attracted interest consists in harnessing high-quality variable renewable energy resources in remote locations, while using transmission links to transport the power to end users. In this context, a comparison of western European and Greenland wind regimes is proposed. By leveraging a regional atmospheric model specically designed to accurately capture polar phenomena, local climatic features of southern Greenland are identied to be particularly conducive to extensive renewable electricity generation from wind. A methodology to assess how connecting remote locations to major demand centres would benet the latter from a resource availability standpoint is introduced and applied to the aforementioned Europe-Greenland case study, showing superior and complementary wind generation potential in the considered region of Greenland with respect to selected European sites.
This is the 7th lesson the course - Climate Change & Global Environment taught at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Rajarata University of Sri Lanka
We present a survey of computational and applied mathematical techniques that have the potential to contribute to the next generation of high-fidelity, multi-scale climate simulations. Examples of the climate science problems that can be investigated with more depth with these computational improvements include the capture of remote forcings of localized hydrological extreme events, an accurate representation of cloud features over a range of spatial and temporal scales, and parallel, large ensembles of simulations to more effectively explore model sensitivities and uncertainties.
Numerical techniques, such as adaptive mesh refinement, implicit time integration, and separate treatment of fast physical time scales are enabling improved accuracy and fidelity in simulation of dynamics and allowing more complete representations of climate features at the global scale. At the same time, partnerships with computer science teams have focused on taking advantage of evolving computer architectures such as many-core processors and GPUs. As a result, approaches which were previously considered prohibitively costly have become both more efficient and scalable. In combination, progress in these three critical areas is poised to transform climate modeling in the coming decades.
IRENA Global Atlas Suitability Analysis for solar and wind energy in West AfricaIRENA Global Atlas
Suitability Analysis for solar and wind energy in West Africa presentation (powered by the Global Atlas) at the World Future Energy Summit 2017 in Abu Dhabi at the Renewable Energy Entrepreneurship side event.
This morning, It’s the Global wind map obtained from the MERRA dataset. The map can be used to have an overview of the wind resources across several regions around the world. However for detailed site specific assessments, maps of higher resolution should be used. You can access this map through: http://irena.masdar.ac.ae/?map=399
Saudi Arabia solar map shows GHI and DNI over Saudi Arabia with several areas of high potential. In this map, you would also find several other ancillary data layers such as, protected areas, hydrography grid, slope etc. This map was created by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) for educational purposes only. It shows an example of identification of solar opportunity areas based on exclusion criteria. The base solar dataset was developed by NREL for the SWERA programme (UNEP). The user can activate the various filters and view the remaining zones.
Access the maps through: http://irena.masdar.ac.ae/?map=179
Did you know that Australia has very good potential for Solar PV? This map shows the diffuse solar radiation over Australia. The map has been shared by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. Access the map through: http://irena.masdar.ac.ae/?map=406
Then South Africa! The map shows the wind resources in South Africa shared by the Wind Atlas for South Africa (WASA) project. The map shows several areas with high potential for wind deployment. You would find several other ancillary data layers such as transmission grids, protected areas, elevation etc. Access the maps through http://irena.masdar.ac.ae/?map=405
It is Yemen today! The map shows the direct and diffused solar irradiation (DNI and GHI) over Yemen. The solar atlases have been shared by NREL and MINES Paris Tech (Helioclim-1 database) respectively and the wind atlases, by Sander + Partners (MERRA Dataset) and VORTEX. Access the map through: http://irena.masdar.ac.ae/?map=324
Next for the day is Papua New Guinea! The map shows wind speeds at 50m height over the Pacific island country. In this map you would also find layers on protected areas, topography, land-cover, and population density per kilometer. The wind map covering Papua New Guinea is shared from the MERRA dataset by Sander+Partners. The layers on protected areas and population density have been shared by UNEP and Oakridge National Laboratory (ORNL) respectively Access the map through: http://irena.masdar.ac.ae/?map=324
We start with Sudan! The map shows the direct and diffused solar irradiation (DNI and GHI) over the Sudanese territory. It also shows wind resources over the Eastern, Central and Southern parts of Sudan. The transmission grid network for the country is also included in the map. The solar and wind atlases have been shared by NREL and VORTEX respectively and the transmission grid maps by the World bank AICD project. Access the map through: http://irena.masdar.ac.ae/?map=321
Would you like to see how countries used resource maps for policy and project development? On the Global Atlas website, 10 of the participating countries have shared case studies describing the effectiveness of resource maps in future planning. Access case studies through: http://irena.org/globalatlas/CaseStudies.aspx
list of 400 solar and wind atlases for different locations globally with the info of the source of each Atlas and other relevant information. Access the catalog through (http://irena.org/globalatlas/catalogue.aspx).
A presentation by the German Aerospace Center DLR at the IRENA GCC workshop. The workshop took place in June, 2013 and was hosted by the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR).
A presentation by Nicolas Fichaux at the IRENA GCC workshop. The workshop took place in June, 2013 and was hosted by the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research.
Presentation from Director Gauri Singh during the first IRENA meeting on the Africa Clean Energy Corridor.
http://www.irena.org/menu/index.aspx?mnu=Subcat&PriMenuID=30&CatID=79&SubcatID=343
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
3. Variable Baseload
Wind x
Solar x
Hydropower x x
Geothermal x
Marine x 3
MAIN CHARACTERISTICS
• Lowest cost for consumers -
optimisation at system level
• High share of renewable
energy - where it makes
economic sense
• Dealing with variability both in
demand and supply - using
synergies between the
different sources and markets
4. CLIMATIC ZONES:
A - tropical
B - subtropical
C - temperate (moderately warm = I and cold = II)
D - polar
Sub-classification for tropical climates (A):
1-tropical cold
2-tropical warm
Sub-classification for other climates:
1-continental high
2-continental
3-marino
WATER CONTENT:
a-arid (0-2 months rain)
sa - semi-arid (3-5 months rain)
sh - semi humid (6-9 months rain)
h - humid (10-12 months rain).
4
Classification: W. Lauer and P. Frankenberg, 1985
Source: European Energy Research Alliance
http://www.thermogis.nl/worldviewer/ThermoGISWorldEdition.html
RESOURCE SYNERGIES
5. WHY MAPPING POTENTIALS?
5
Conceptual diagram of Renewable Energy Potentials (from NREL, 2012)
How competitive is it?
How much can it cost?
Where can it be
harvested? How much
power?
Where is the resource?
Complexity Standards
Private sector
interest Risks
• COUNTRY-DRIVEN
• LONG TERM PLANNING PROCESS
• COMMITMENT REQUIRED
6. INTENSE WORK IN CEC
6
WIND SOLAR BIOENERGY
HYDRO. GEOTH.
LITTERATURE ASSESSMENT.
IDENTIFIED MAPS AND
MEASUREMENT CAMPAIGNS.
Country resource map identified
(official or not)
Measurement points identified
or referenced by the literature.
7. A STRATEGY FOR THE CEC?
7
Do not let what you cannot do tear from your hands
what you can. (Ghana)
8. WHAT HAPPENED IN 10Y?
8
NASA 2008 - 1x1 deg
Helioclim 2005 – 20 x 20 km
Private companies – down to 90m
9. Winds in the East African corridor.
Mesoscale 9km basemap
extracted from Vortex, Spain.
Average annual wind speeds at 80
m high.
The values can not be used
without validation, but the wind
patterns appear clearly, and are
consistent with other mesoscale
sources. The boxes attempt to
highlight areas with possibly
strong annual average wind
speeds.
This rough approximation does
not exclude the possibility of good
wind sites outside the red squares,
due to local effects not captured
by the mesoscale model.
10. Solar Global Horizontal Irradiance
in the East African corridor. Map
extracted from SolarGIS
(Geomodel Solar).
The data is derived from satellite
images, recalibrated on ground
measurements. The values can not
be used locally without validation,
but the patterns appear clearly,
and are consistent with other
sources. The boxes attempt to
highlight areas with highest
irradiation values.
This rough approximation does
not exclude the possibility of good
sites outside the red squares, due
to local effects not captured by
the model.
11. A STRATEGY FOR THE CEC?
11
Mesoscale High resource? High opportunity?
Turkana
12. STEP BY STEP ANALYSIS
12
Data
bankability
Investor’s
interest
PUBLIC
SECTOR
EFFORT
Local
measurements
PRIVATE
SECTOR
EFFORT
Existing local
measurements
13. 13
Albania, Australia, Belgium, Denmark,
Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Gambia,
Germany, Grenada, Honduras, India, Iraq,
Israel, Kuwait, Lithuania, Mali, Mexico,
Mongolia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria,
Norway, Peru, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,
Senegal, Seychelles, South Africa, Spain,
Swaziland, Switzerland, Tunisia, UAE,
Uganda, UK, Uruguay, USA, Yemen.