The document outlines Richard Davies' presentation on the Green Force initiative at Huntingdonshire District Council. The presentation covers HDC's vision and targets to reduce emissions, introduce the Green Force program, and ways the Green Force network can make a difference through community projects, leadership, and changing behaviors. It concludes by emphasizing the importance of ambitious plans and actions to address climate change.
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New base energy news issue 888 dated 19 july 2016Khaled Al Awadi
Greetings,
Attached FYI (NewBase Special 19 July 2016 ) , from Hawk Energy Services Dubai . Daily energy news covering the MENA area and related worldwide energy news. In today’s issue you will find news about:-
• UAE: Dubai DEWA to explore feasibility of geothermal energy for water desalination
• UAE: Dubai Municipality gives go-ahead for implementation of Dh30b smart, city
• Oman’s IPP Manah power plant to transfer to govt in 2020
• Morocco: Sound Energy provides update on Tendrara well,
• Pakistan: PPL gas discovery at Hadi X-1A, Gambat South Bloc
• UK: EnQuest to farm out interest in Kraken field development to Delek
• U.S. shale output drop seen for tenth straight month in August
• U.S. oil companies closer to balancing capital investment with operating cash flow
• Oil prices fall on oversupply concerns despite output cuts
• Dark cloud of offshore fuel storage rising over oil price
• Exxon & Total ,fighting over the rights to build a $32 billion LNG project
we would appreciate your actions to send to all interested parties that you may wish. Also note that if you or your organization wish to include your own article or advert in our circulations, please send it to :- khdmohd@hotmail.com or khdmohd@hawkenergy.net
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MS & BS Mechanical Engineering (HON), USA
Emarat member since 1990
ASME meme since 1995
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"Bringing Energy Efficiency to the Developing World" by Benoit Le Bot of the UNDP regional center Dakar - Presented at the Australian Summer Study on Energy Efficiency & Decentralised Energy, Feb 2013
Jennifer Morgan, Director of the Climate and Energy Program at the World Resources Institute, presented on the state of global climate policy at the launch of The Climate Institute's Global Climate Leadership Review 2012.
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New base energy news issue 888 dated 19 july 2016Khaled Al Awadi
Greetings,
Attached FYI (NewBase Special 19 July 2016 ) , from Hawk Energy Services Dubai . Daily energy news covering the MENA area and related worldwide energy news. In today’s issue you will find news about:-
• UAE: Dubai DEWA to explore feasibility of geothermal energy for water desalination
• UAE: Dubai Municipality gives go-ahead for implementation of Dh30b smart, city
• Oman’s IPP Manah power plant to transfer to govt in 2020
• Morocco: Sound Energy provides update on Tendrara well,
• Pakistan: PPL gas discovery at Hadi X-1A, Gambat South Bloc
• UK: EnQuest to farm out interest in Kraken field development to Delek
• U.S. shale output drop seen for tenth straight month in August
• U.S. oil companies closer to balancing capital investment with operating cash flow
• Oil prices fall on oversupply concerns despite output cuts
• Dark cloud of offshore fuel storage rising over oil price
• Exxon & Total ,fighting over the rights to build a $32 billion LNG project
we would appreciate your actions to send to all interested parties that you may wish. Also note that if you or your organization wish to include your own article or advert in our circulations, please send it to :- khdmohd@hotmail.com or khdmohd@hawkenergy.net
Best Regards.
Khaled Al Awadi
Energy Consultant & NewBase Chairman - Senior Chief Editor
MS & BS Mechanical Engineering (HON), USA
Emarat member since 1990
ASME meme since 1995
Hawk Energy since 2010
Australia is meeting our climate change targets, improving the environment and supporting an effective international response.
The Government’s policies reduce emissions by boosting energy productivity, reducing waste, rehabilitating degraded land, increasing renewable energy and driving innovation. The Government’s policies are addressing climate change while helping to reduce costs for households and businesses.
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This project enumerates ways to mitigate climate change through eight strategies. Each strategy, called as 'wedge', when implemented could reduce carbon emission by 1b ton by 2055. This project prioritizes these strategies based on cost of implementation and public opinion. Ranks are assigned from 1 to 8, with 1 for highly feasible [low cost and less criticism] and 8 for hardly feasible.
As seen from the presentation, adopting to biofuels is found to be least feasible (rank-8), followed by fuel switching for electricity (rank-7). In contrast, improving transport efficiency is found to be highly feasible (rank-1), followed by efficiency in electricity production (rank-2). Justifications (qualitative and quantitative) are provided for the ranking of each strategy.
In the concluding slides, stakeholder perspectives are provided for automobile industry and industrial/developing nations. The climate wedges concept was developed by Princeton University, Ford and BP to find solutions to greenhouse gas problem (see references).
Reference:
- Carbon Mitigation Initiative http://cmi.princeton.edu/wedges/
- Stabilization Wedges Game https://cmi.princeton.edu/wedges/pdfs/teachers_guide.pdf
This work is done as a part of graduate course titled Global Air Pollutants in Spring 2016. The author was pursuing MS in Environmental Engineering Sciences at University of Florida during the making of this project.
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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
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Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
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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:
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- 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
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https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
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14. To Address: Climate Change + Energy Security
= The Same Actions
+ Finite Fossil Fuel
15. ‘Can nine billion people be fed? Can we cope
with the demands in the future on water? Can
we provide enough energy? Can we do it, all
that, while mitigating and adapting to climate
change? And can we do all that in 21 years
time? That's when these things are going to
start hitting in a really big way. We need to act
now. We need investment in science and
technology, and all the other ways of treating
very seriously these major problems. 2030 is
not very far away.’
Professor Sir John Beddington 19th March 2009, London
17. quot;Regardless
of which route we
choose, the world's
current predicament
limits our maneuvering
room. We are
experiencing a
step-change in the growth
rate of energy demand
due to population growth
and economic
development, and Shell
estimates that after
2015 supplies of
easy-to-access oil
and gas will no
longer keep
up with
demand.quot;
Jeroen van der Veer, CEO Shell
28th January 2008
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24. Climate Change Act Targets
• 1990 baseline of CO2 emissions was
approximately 590 million tons of CO2.
• An 80% reduction is based on the minimum
reductions necessary to avoid causing
catastrophic and permanent changes to the
climate
• 80% of 590m tons = 118 million tonnes.
• The UK level of CO2 emissions (1.76
tonnes/capita cf. ~10 tonnes today) hasn’t been
that low since…… when?
38. Community Owned: Green Energy
Encourage people from all
walks of life in Huntingdonshire
District to be part of the
renewables revolution and join
in the fight against climate
change by catalysing the
ownership of local renewables
development.
39. HDC: Sustainable Energy Award
Establish an annual award for
sustainable energy (or climate
change) achievement in
Huntingdonshire. To raise the
profile of ambitious action and
encourage & engage
businesses, organisations,
individuals & communities.
40. Third Sector
Help ‘all’ Third Sector
organisations within the District
through a Resource/Carbon
management programme.
Review third sector service
delivery & maximise affordable
warmth, sustainable energy &
climate change opportunities.
Focus on Leadership within
sector.
41.
42. LSP Partners
LSP Partners to contribute to
National Indicator 186 through a
programme of climate change &
sustainable energy action.
Workplace, travel, staff…..
Corporate Commitment & Pledge
Leadership Group
Task & finish Group
43.
44. Leadership
Huntingdonshire:
Place/Agenda Shaper.
Engage ‘leaders’ within
Huntingdonshire in the
climate change/ sustainable
energy challenge.
‘If the leader hath no vision the
people will perish’ Proverbs 29:18
46. Focus on Community Building
Eradicate the inefficient
community building from
Huntingdonshire.
Use Community Buildings to
promote sustainable energy
technologies.
Sustainable Energy Trail around
the District.
48. Microgeneration
Focus on small scale
renewable technologies
across the District. Linking
technologies with
communities, or sectors.
Picking a winner: Solar
thermal or biomass heating?
49. The Great British (HDC?) Refurb
Ed Milliband has recently
announced that by 2050 all
British homes will be near
carbon zero. Is now the right
time for Huntingdonshire to
step forward & seek to be the
first locality in the UK to deliver
this in existing homes?
59. Fossil fuels we use today
originated from….?
A) Old rocks?
B) Volcanic lava?
C) The growth and decay of
plants and marine life
that existed millions of
years ago?
D) Accrington?
60. Which of the following environmental goals
is NOT one of Huntingdonshire District
Council’s three main environmental aims?
A) Tackling climate change?
B) Using resources efficiently?
C) Protecting and improving the
environment?
D) Requiring all new residential
development to be constructed from
straw bales?
61. Car traffic in Huntingdonshire, if left
unchecked, could grow by how much
in the next 20 years?
A)5 %
B)10%
C)15%
D)20%
62. Huntingdon Leisure Centre now
enjoys lower carbon emissions as a
result of the installation of a CHP
unit. What does CHP stand for?
A) Combined Heat and
Power?
B) Carbon Hierarchy Project?
C) Climate Huntingdon Plan?
D) Complex Heating Plant?
63. The aim of the Green Force is to…?
A) Increase the environmental awareness of
Huntingdon District Council’s employees
by spreading the word about
environmental issues to their colleagues.
B) To generate renewable
energy from all green
biological material across
Huntingdonshire District
Council.
C) Construct a giant solar
tower in every town
centre.
D) Counteract the red force.
64. Which of the following is NOT
involved in your role as a Green
Force Rep?
A) Spreading the word?
B) Sharing best practice?
C) Communicating
outcomes?
D) A green suit?
65. Energy efficiency is good in
terms of…?
A)The environment?
B)Reducing energy
bills?
C)Ensuring a more
stable world in the
future?
D)All of the above?
66. The Green Force Network will…
A) Discuss the pros and cons of
recyclable plastic window frames.
B) Plan, co-ordinate and monitor a
series of fun, innovative,
engaging environmental projects
to change behaviour within the
organisation.
C) Have picnics in the park and
admire the wildlife.
67. Which of the following is NOT in
HDC’s environmental strategy to
mitigate and adapt to climate
change?
A) Increase energy efficiency?
B) Reduce travel and emissions to the
atmosphere?
C) Enforced phasing out of polluting auto
vehicles?
D) Adaptation to climate change?
E) Encourage renewable energy?
68. A Green Force Rep will benefit from
three of the following, which however
would NOT be part of your role as a
Green Force Rep?
A) You’ll have the opportunity to contribute to and
determine what campaigns and projects need to be
implemented in the council to reduce our environmental
footprint.
B) You’ll decide enough is enough and go and live in a
convent.
C) You’ll be provided with a ½ day environmental
awareness course.
D) You’ll be responsible for promoting and coordinating
campaigns and projects to colleagues in their team.
E) You’ll be invaluable as the council strives to become
more environmentally and financially sustainable.
70. “What we think, or what
we know, or what we
believe is, in the end, of
little consequence. The
only consequence is
what we do.” John Ruskin
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84. “Make no little plans. They
have no magic to stir
men's blood... Make big
plans; aim high in hope
and work.”
Daniel Hudson Burnham
1846-1912
“Search all the parks in all
your cities; you'll find no
statues of committees.”
David Ogilvy
1911-1999