South African Energy System
The Science of Climate Change
Energy Efficiency and Demand Side Management
Energy Efficiency Interventions in South Africa
Residential Energy Efficiency Measures
Engineering Creates Opportunity from Waste BIV, March 5 2013Connie Linder
If trash disposal is going to be made cheaper and more sustainable, engineering entrepreneurs need to first provide proof of concept before these solutions will be employed on a large scale
South African Energy System
The Science of Climate Change
Energy Efficiency and Demand Side Management
Energy Efficiency Interventions in South Africa
Residential Energy Efficiency Measures
Engineering Creates Opportunity from Waste BIV, March 5 2013Connie Linder
If trash disposal is going to be made cheaper and more sustainable, engineering entrepreneurs need to first provide proof of concept before these solutions will be employed on a large scale
Zero energy buildings economical and environmental aspectsMD ASIF AKBARI
A net zero energy building can be defined as a building which generates as much energy through renewable sources as much as it consumes from the Grid. To achieve this purpose, Renewable Energy Sources like Solar Energy, Wind Energy, Biogas Energy and Geo thermal energy have to be harnessed properly so that the energy borrowed from the Grid can be replenished by these sources. In this paper, an attempt has been made to compare the economic and environmental aspects of energy generated from these resources and to tell us which of the above mentioned non renewable energy resource is the best suited based on the parameters of economic and environmental feasibility.
for further details contact Asif Akbari on Akbariasif12@gmail.com or 9521930692 (whatsapp)
Energy Efficient Building using Solar Energy and Adoptation of Green Building...ijtsrd
The field of "ENERGY EFFICIENT BUILDING", or building design and constructions that prioritizes energy efficiency and sustainability, is young but rapidly developing. This report's analysis of building construction practices includes description of methods that are currently being employed by the construction industry to increase energy efficiency methods to decrease the amount of energy used in building operating systems, and methods that are currently known to improve energy efficiency but are not yet commercially viable. As energy consumption from residential building is predicted to rise by more than 8 times by 2050 under the business as usual scenario, it is of vital importance for India to develop energy efficiency strategies focused on the residential sector to limit the current trend of unsustainable escalating energy demand. This study investigates methods of restraining growth in energy consumption in the Indian residential sector and documents energy saving potentials that can be achieved with focused policy and market efforts. The report examines other methods of encouraging the public to use energy more efficiently. Also discussed are possibilities for the state of mandate greater energy efficiency in the private sector, primarily through amendments to the building code and to land use and zoning policies. Due to current economic factors, this option may promote a state of policy of energy conservation more than attempting to encourage efficiency with incentives. The ultimate aim is to make the residential building as eco friendly. P K Ponsangari "Energy Efficient Building using Solar Energy and Adoptation of Green Building Techniques" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-6 , October 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd28093.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/civil-engineering/28093/energy-efficient-building-using-solar-energy-and-adoptation-of-green-building-techniques/p-k-ponsangari
Managing Energy Costs Through Clean, Renewable PowerMDV-SEIA
Jim Cooke, National Facilities Manager for Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. discusses sustainable business and how Toyota's sustainable business practices have helped the company and the world.
This presentation was given December 4, 2009 at the Solar Energy Focus Conference: Fall 2009 hosted by the Maryland, DC, Virginia Solar Energy Industries Association (MDV-SEIA) in Gaithersburg, MD.
To learn more please visit:
www.mdvseia.camp7.org
Jerry Yudelson: The Business Case for Net Zero Energy BuildingsJerry Yudelson
Presented at the annual convention of the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning National Association (www.smacna.org) in Maui, Hawaii, in October 2013. In this presentation, Jerry Yudelson discusses the business case for net zero energy buildings and demonstrates why they are going to be a big part of the green building future.
City of Ely EECBG Project Update Presentation (26-Oct-2011)Daniel Herr
Presentation given by Daniel Herr to the City of Ely in October 2011 regarding the Energy Efficiency Community Block Grant completed by Johnson Controls Inc. and Clean Energy Center LLC of Reno.
FOSTERING ENERGY EFFICIENCY DYNAMICS THROUGH EX-ANTE STRATEGIC NICHE MANAGEME...Dr Renuka Thakore
Investigating potential of energy efficiency initiatives such as the “Green Deal” to contribute towards multi-dimensional sustainability in the English housing development pathways. It is indentifed that the role of stakeholders is crucial in making this a reality. First order learning is generally visible, however, second order learning is not apparent. Full stakeholders engagement - experts and non-experts, academics and non-academics, policy-makers and decision-makers, developers, regulators and end-users - can delve into greater granularity of interrelationships, forces and pressures, barriers and opportunities to direct successful sustainable transformations.
Poplar Network, the leader in LEED education and green building networking for professionals, shows you the logistics and benefits of a net zero building. Considering building a residential or commercial building? Minimize long-term costs with these great insights.
Energy CIO Insights, an online/print technology magazine which provides knowledge network to the community of technology professionals facing challenges to leverage technology for their organization. Here senior technology executives from various businesses share their experience, advice and astuteness on energy sector that constitutes the very bedrock of nation's economy.
CCU & les nouvelles molécules de la transition énergétique | 2 février 2021Cluster TWEED
Webinaire organisé par le pôle Greenwin et le cluster TWEED, lié aux nouvelles technologies émergentes du secteur énergétique, aux derniers développements au niveau du captage, du stockage et de la valorisation du CO2 (CCUS), ainsi qu'au rôle des nouvelles molécules de la transition énergétique.
* Emerging Sustainable Technologies - Elodie Lecadre, Engie Research, Lead Scientific Advisor
* CCU & Molecules - Jan Mertens, Engie Research, Chief Science Officer (En)
* Rationals behind CCUS and Direct Air Capture - Grégoire Leonard, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Liège
* CCU & heavy process industries - Jean-Yves Tilquin, Carmeuse, Group R&D Director & Vice-President CO2 Value Europe
Elements of Sustainable Construction and Design ParametersAjit Sabnis
This presentation covers facets of Embodied Energy, Embodied Carbon, LCA methods, Benchmarking and establishing baselines, Parameters for sustainable design.
Zero energy buildings economical and environmental aspectsMD ASIF AKBARI
A net zero energy building can be defined as a building which generates as much energy through renewable sources as much as it consumes from the Grid. To achieve this purpose, Renewable Energy Sources like Solar Energy, Wind Energy, Biogas Energy and Geo thermal energy have to be harnessed properly so that the energy borrowed from the Grid can be replenished by these sources. In this paper, an attempt has been made to compare the economic and environmental aspects of energy generated from these resources and to tell us which of the above mentioned non renewable energy resource is the best suited based on the parameters of economic and environmental feasibility.
for further details contact Asif Akbari on Akbariasif12@gmail.com or 9521930692 (whatsapp)
Energy Efficient Building using Solar Energy and Adoptation of Green Building...ijtsrd
The field of "ENERGY EFFICIENT BUILDING", or building design and constructions that prioritizes energy efficiency and sustainability, is young but rapidly developing. This report's analysis of building construction practices includes description of methods that are currently being employed by the construction industry to increase energy efficiency methods to decrease the amount of energy used in building operating systems, and methods that are currently known to improve energy efficiency but are not yet commercially viable. As energy consumption from residential building is predicted to rise by more than 8 times by 2050 under the business as usual scenario, it is of vital importance for India to develop energy efficiency strategies focused on the residential sector to limit the current trend of unsustainable escalating energy demand. This study investigates methods of restraining growth in energy consumption in the Indian residential sector and documents energy saving potentials that can be achieved with focused policy and market efforts. The report examines other methods of encouraging the public to use energy more efficiently. Also discussed are possibilities for the state of mandate greater energy efficiency in the private sector, primarily through amendments to the building code and to land use and zoning policies. Due to current economic factors, this option may promote a state of policy of energy conservation more than attempting to encourage efficiency with incentives. The ultimate aim is to make the residential building as eco friendly. P K Ponsangari "Energy Efficient Building using Solar Energy and Adoptation of Green Building Techniques" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-6 , October 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd28093.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/civil-engineering/28093/energy-efficient-building-using-solar-energy-and-adoptation-of-green-building-techniques/p-k-ponsangari
Managing Energy Costs Through Clean, Renewable PowerMDV-SEIA
Jim Cooke, National Facilities Manager for Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. discusses sustainable business and how Toyota's sustainable business practices have helped the company and the world.
This presentation was given December 4, 2009 at the Solar Energy Focus Conference: Fall 2009 hosted by the Maryland, DC, Virginia Solar Energy Industries Association (MDV-SEIA) in Gaithersburg, MD.
To learn more please visit:
www.mdvseia.camp7.org
Jerry Yudelson: The Business Case for Net Zero Energy BuildingsJerry Yudelson
Presented at the annual convention of the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning National Association (www.smacna.org) in Maui, Hawaii, in October 2013. In this presentation, Jerry Yudelson discusses the business case for net zero energy buildings and demonstrates why they are going to be a big part of the green building future.
City of Ely EECBG Project Update Presentation (26-Oct-2011)Daniel Herr
Presentation given by Daniel Herr to the City of Ely in October 2011 regarding the Energy Efficiency Community Block Grant completed by Johnson Controls Inc. and Clean Energy Center LLC of Reno.
FOSTERING ENERGY EFFICIENCY DYNAMICS THROUGH EX-ANTE STRATEGIC NICHE MANAGEME...Dr Renuka Thakore
Investigating potential of energy efficiency initiatives such as the “Green Deal” to contribute towards multi-dimensional sustainability in the English housing development pathways. It is indentifed that the role of stakeholders is crucial in making this a reality. First order learning is generally visible, however, second order learning is not apparent. Full stakeholders engagement - experts and non-experts, academics and non-academics, policy-makers and decision-makers, developers, regulators and end-users - can delve into greater granularity of interrelationships, forces and pressures, barriers and opportunities to direct successful sustainable transformations.
Poplar Network, the leader in LEED education and green building networking for professionals, shows you the logistics and benefits of a net zero building. Considering building a residential or commercial building? Minimize long-term costs with these great insights.
Energy CIO Insights, an online/print technology magazine which provides knowledge network to the community of technology professionals facing challenges to leverage technology for their organization. Here senior technology executives from various businesses share their experience, advice and astuteness on energy sector that constitutes the very bedrock of nation's economy.
CCU & les nouvelles molécules de la transition énergétique | 2 février 2021Cluster TWEED
Webinaire organisé par le pôle Greenwin et le cluster TWEED, lié aux nouvelles technologies émergentes du secteur énergétique, aux derniers développements au niveau du captage, du stockage et de la valorisation du CO2 (CCUS), ainsi qu'au rôle des nouvelles molécules de la transition énergétique.
* Emerging Sustainable Technologies - Elodie Lecadre, Engie Research, Lead Scientific Advisor
* CCU & Molecules - Jan Mertens, Engie Research, Chief Science Officer (En)
* Rationals behind CCUS and Direct Air Capture - Grégoire Leonard, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Liège
* CCU & heavy process industries - Jean-Yves Tilquin, Carmeuse, Group R&D Director & Vice-President CO2 Value Europe
Elements of Sustainable Construction and Design ParametersAjit Sabnis
This presentation covers facets of Embodied Energy, Embodied Carbon, LCA methods, Benchmarking and establishing baselines, Parameters for sustainable design.
Community Microgrids: Savings and resilience for local governments (1/25/18)Clean Coalition
The Clean Coalition was a partner organization for the The Promise of Microgrids conference, which took place on January 25, 2018 in Los Angeles, CA. Frank Wasko, Program Director for the Clean Coalition, participated on a panel discussing local government microgrids.
Green or Green-Wash? Lessons from building North America’s greenest hotelMaRS Discovery District
Speaker: Tom Rand, MaRS Advisor and Cleantech Practice Lead
Buildings are responsible for more than half of urban carbon emissions. Greening our buildings is clearly a cleantech priority - but what does "green" mean? Which technologies work, and which are window-dressing? What's possible by economic argument alone? This talk will take you through the technologies, decisions and problems of transforming a derelict building on our very own College Street into a modern, clean and green hotel. By "green" we mean an 80 per cent reduction of carbon emissions from business as usual. Planet Traveler will be "North America's Greenest Hotel." Planet Traveler: green, or green-washed?
Part of the MaRS Best Practices Series. For more information, including video, please see the event page here: http://www.marsdd.com/Events/Event-Calendar/Best-Practices-Series/green-hotel-06092009.html
Mike Reese, director of the Renewable Energy Program at the West Central Research and Outreach Center provides an "Energy 101" to residents of Stevens County.
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/
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
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.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
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.
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.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
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
31. Achieving AB 32 Targets in Buildings Source: Rick Diamond PhD, LBNL Business as usual New Construction Renovation Existing Buildings Reductions needed 2020 Target 2050 Target
We face an energy dilemna in the USA – either business as usual with some incremental improvement or nuclear power. I’d like propose a third possibility… similar to paul hawken’s ‘blessed unrest’ How many people know who hermann scheer is? Renewable technologies are at a wonderous growth curve… last year I went to two solar and renewable conferences in california… where the semicon conferences were downsized… the solar conferences were 3-5x bigger!! This is a presentation about micro generation, or energy commons… I’ve used the word commons as is used in the English commons… see wiki definition… This is a paper about the status in california… and attempts to get a discussion going… there… I’d like to learn about these types of energy systems here in austria or closeby;… if anyone knows… pelase contact me.
The sole purpose of a public held utility company is to make profits for its shareholders and assure reliability to customers It is further regulated and GUARANTEED to make a ‘reasonable profit’
A typical large power station wastes over a third of its fuel by simply heating up the atmosphere. A further 10% of this is wasted in transmission and distribution, meaning less than half of the fuel is used productively by the consumer. By comparison, microgeneration technologies use more than 90% of the fuel productively for heat or electricity, or are powered by clean, renewable sources. Microgeneration helps to combat climate change. Some forms of micropower use fuels or energy sources that produce no greenhouse gases and are classed as renewable energy. Those that do use fossil fuels do so with efficiencies typically of greater than 90%. Some micropower technologies, when taken up in large numbers, will provide a more predictable source of power generation than large power stations. They also relieve pressure on the grid at times of strain. They enhance diversity and security of supply, and for some technologies back-up power is also available in the event of a blackout. Microgeneration is a catalyst for cultural change.There are wider benefits than just cost and carbon reductions Consumers with microgeneration exhibit noticeable changes in their energy use, as well as sending a clear visual signal of a property contributes in generating low or zero carbon energy to neighbours." ( http:// www.micropower.co.uk/about/whymicropower.html ) --------------------------------------------- “Sustainable Energy, Choosing Among Options” The Blurb from the book: Human survival depends on a continuing energy supply, but the need for ever-increasing amounts of energy poses a dilemma: How can we provide the benefits of energy to the population of the globe without damaging the environment, negatively affecting social stability, or threatening the well-being of future generations? The solution will lie in finding sustainable energy sources and more efficient means of converting and utilizing energy. This textbook is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as others who have an interest in exploring energy resource options and technologies with a view toward achieving sustainability. It clearly presents the trade-offs and uncertainties inherent in evaluating and choosing different energy options and provides a framework for assessing policy solutions. Sustainable Energy includes illustrative examples, problems, references for further reading, and links to relevant Web sites. Outside the classroom, the book is a resource for government, industry, and nonprofit organizations. The first six chapters provide the tools for making informed energy choices. They examine the broader aspects of energy use, including resource estimation, environmental effects, and economic evaluations. Chapters 7-15 review the main energy sources of today and tomorrow, including fossil fuels, nuclear power, biomass, geothermal energy, hydropower, wind energy, and solar energy, examining their technologies, environmental impacts, and economics. The remaining chapters treat energy storage, transmission, and distribution; the electric power sector; transportation; industrial energy usage; commercial and residential buildings; and synergistic complex systems. Sustainable Energy addresses the challenges of integrating diverse factors and the importance for future generations of the energy choices we make today.
The Microgeneration Manifesto aims to make this a reality by putting forward a blue print for the revision of the UK Microgeneration Strategy Some clear themes throughout the Manifesto include the need to streamline existing policies and integrate new measures seamlessly (e.g. financial incentives, retro-fit); to target problem areas such as the private rental sector and gaps in the green skills base and to send consumers a clear, coherent message on why they should take action and the help that is available.
Description English: Original JPG by Frank van Mierlo Graphic is original and mine, it was however heavily inspired by the work of others; notably NASA, which has published an overview with similar data in a different presentation (e.g. see [1] ). Energy at the crossroads by Vaclav Smil, MIT Press 2003 has a graphic on page 241 that is identical to the NASA graphic but he does not credit them so it is unclear who copied whom. Anyway this picture is mine and I am happy to submit is to the public domain. Please do credit me if you use it. SVG Replacement for en::Image:Breakdown of the incoming solar energy.jpg Source Transferred from en.wikipedia ; transfer was stated to be made by User:feministo . Date 2008-04-26 (original upload date) Author Original uploader was User A1 at en.wikipedia Description Useful energy (exergy) in surface incident solar radiation, wind and geothermal [1] compared to global consumption - Energy Information Administration (in 2004, 447.605 Quadrillion btu/yr = 14.965 x 10^12 Watts) [2] Source self-made, based on the work of Frank van Mierlo Date May 21, 2008 Author Delphi234
