The document discusses the need to transition away from fossil fuels to more sustainable energy sources in order to address climate change. It outlines current trends showing that over 80% of energy comes from damaging fossil fuels. It then provides examples of solutions that already exist, such as increasing use of wind, solar and other renewable energy sources, improving energy efficiency, and implementing a smart grid. While the transition will be difficult and costly, it will also create jobs and make communities healthier while protecting the planet for future generations.
Solar + Tesla = Fantastic Summer EventPaul Mansour
Back in July 2016, we hosted an educational event that featured 2 local solar installers plus Tesla Motors. The neighborhood got a chance to learn about how a few simple changes in their household can reduce energy, how solar energy works, and how electric vehicles are becoming more mainstream. Over 100 people attended the event. Many had a chance to ride in a Model S and Model X.
The world is using more energy than ever before, but most of it still comes from fossil fuels. We need to change course – and fast. This infographic explores if new technologies can put us on track for a clean energy future.
Solar + Tesla = Fantastic Summer EventPaul Mansour
Back in July 2016, we hosted an educational event that featured 2 local solar installers plus Tesla Motors. The neighborhood got a chance to learn about how a few simple changes in their household can reduce energy, how solar energy works, and how electric vehicles are becoming more mainstream. Over 100 people attended the event. Many had a chance to ride in a Model S and Model X.
The world is using more energy than ever before, but most of it still comes from fossil fuels. We need to change course – and fast. This infographic explores if new technologies can put us on track for a clean energy future.
Big Green Challenge Presentation White BackgroundGreenvalleys
The Big Green Challenge is a climate change competition from NESTA (National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts). This powerpoint was part of a presentation done by Grenville Ham to about 30 different community groups mustering up support for The Green Valleys community project in the Brecon Beacons National Park
Answer the question What is carbon-negative technology and its remarkable impact on the environment?
New and promising environmental methods and techniques, primarily negative carbon technology, are working towards a better future for the environment and solving its major problems, including climate change.
This presentation describes Global Warming and how it creates jobs. It warns that China is moving ahead of us in this field and describes actions that you can do.
10 Insightful Quotes On Designing A Better Customer ExperienceYuan Wang
In an ever-changing landscape of one digital disruption after another, companies and organisations are looking for new ways to understand their target markets and engage them better. Increasingly they invest in user experience (UX) and customer experience design (CX) capabilities by working with a specialist UX agency or developing their own UX lab. Some UX practitioners are touting leaner and faster ways of developing customer-centric products and services, via methodologies such as guerilla research, rapid prototyping and Agile UX. Others seek innovation and fulfilment by spending more time in research, being more inclusive, and designing for social goods.
Experience is more than just an interface. It is a relationship, as well as a series of touch points between your brand and your customer. Here are our top 10 highlights and takeaways from the recent UX Australia conference to help you transform your customer experience design.
For full article, continue reading at https://yump.com.au/10-ways-supercharge-customer-experience-design/
How to Build a Dynamic Social Media PlanPost Planner
Stop guessing and wasting your time on networks and strategies that don’t work!
Join Rebekah Radice and Katie Lance to learn how to optimize your social networks, the best kept secrets for hot content, top time management tools, and much more!
Watch the replay here: bit.ly/socialmedia-plan
Big Green Challenge Presentation White BackgroundGreenvalleys
The Big Green Challenge is a climate change competition from NESTA (National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts). This powerpoint was part of a presentation done by Grenville Ham to about 30 different community groups mustering up support for The Green Valleys community project in the Brecon Beacons National Park
Answer the question What is carbon-negative technology and its remarkable impact on the environment?
New and promising environmental methods and techniques, primarily negative carbon technology, are working towards a better future for the environment and solving its major problems, including climate change.
This presentation describes Global Warming and how it creates jobs. It warns that China is moving ahead of us in this field and describes actions that you can do.
10 Insightful Quotes On Designing A Better Customer ExperienceYuan Wang
In an ever-changing landscape of one digital disruption after another, companies and organisations are looking for new ways to understand their target markets and engage them better. Increasingly they invest in user experience (UX) and customer experience design (CX) capabilities by working with a specialist UX agency or developing their own UX lab. Some UX practitioners are touting leaner and faster ways of developing customer-centric products and services, via methodologies such as guerilla research, rapid prototyping and Agile UX. Others seek innovation and fulfilment by spending more time in research, being more inclusive, and designing for social goods.
Experience is more than just an interface. It is a relationship, as well as a series of touch points between your brand and your customer. Here are our top 10 highlights and takeaways from the recent UX Australia conference to help you transform your customer experience design.
For full article, continue reading at https://yump.com.au/10-ways-supercharge-customer-experience-design/
How to Build a Dynamic Social Media PlanPost Planner
Stop guessing and wasting your time on networks and strategies that don’t work!
Join Rebekah Radice and Katie Lance to learn how to optimize your social networks, the best kept secrets for hot content, top time management tools, and much more!
Watch the replay here: bit.ly/socialmedia-plan
http://inarocket.com
Learn BEM fundamentals as fast as possible. What is BEM (Block, element, modifier), BEM syntax, how it works with a real example, etc.
Content personalisation is becoming more prevalent. A site, it's content and/or it's products, change dynamically according to the specific needs of the user. SEO needs to ensure we do not fall behind of this trend.
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.
¿Energía sostenible para el mundo?
Por Sir Christopher Llewellyn Smith, Director de Investigación Energética en la Universidad de Oxford y Ex director general del CERN.
The Unscientific Fantasy: 100% RenewablesKarl Pauls
27-9-2017 at Ada's Technical Books, Jim Conca presents a lecture and answers questions on the Stanford University / Mark Z. Jacobson 100 Percent Renewables proposal.
Credits:
Speaker - Jim Conca
Host - Seattle Friends of Fission
Venue - Ada's Technical Books, Seattle, WA
Video, Audio - Karl Pauls
Audio - Charles H. / KBFG Radio 107.3 Seattle, WA
Video on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/8iQnMYGUwiE
Downloadable audio available on soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/karl-pauls/seattle-friends-of-fission-27-9-2017-jim-conca-unscientific-fantasy-100-percent-renewables
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
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.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
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.
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
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
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.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
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.
8. It doesn ’t have to be that way “ The stone age did not end for lack of stone, and the oil age will end long before the world runs out of oil. ” Sheikh Zaki Yamani, Former Saudi Arabian Oil Minister
9. 2 So how do we move past fossil fuels and solve the climate crisis?
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11. PARTS PER MILLION CO2 YEAR Phaseout of coal by 2030 Improved forestry and soil Reduced oil/gas use GETTING TO 350ppm *Graph from Dr. James Hansen ’s paper on 350ppm. See sources.
12. the energy revolution Advanced Energy [R]evolution Scenario 2010 – primary energy demand Source: Energy [R]evolution Fig 6.11, p.72 Efficiency compared to ‘BAU’ Ocean Energy Solar Thermal Geothermal Biomass Wind Hydro Natural Gas Oil Coal Nuclear
14. IT MEANS PUTTING UP WIND TURBINES INSTEAD OF COAL PLANTS Did you know that wind power is already cost competitive with new coal power plants in good wind locations?
15. It means solar photovoltaic power on our houses Light (photons) Front Contact Grid Anti-Reflection Coating N-Type Semiconductor Boarder Layout P-Type Semiconductor Backcontact Image: Greenpeace
16. Did you know that solar photovoltaic will reach provide as much electricity as fossil fuels in many developed countries in the next 3 years ?
26. This isn ’t futuristic; ALL of these technologies are available NOW
27. 3 Won ’t the transition to a low-emission economy be too difficult? No! Is it really worth it? Yes!
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31. A clean energy revolution to get to 350ppm, in the end, will cost far less than the costs of climate impacts like floods, droughts, and extreme weather.
32. A Clean Energy Revolution has a lot of other benefits as well - it will create millions of new jobs E[R] Without E[R] Source: Energy [R]evolution, p69-70 Conventional Power Plants Renewables employment in 2030
38. What are YOU doing to be a part of the CLEAN ENERGY REVOLUTION?
39. What can we do to get our government to build a clean energy revolution?
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Editor's Notes
Source: World Resources Institute, http://earthtrends.wri.org/images/GHG_emissions_by_sector2.jpg -Globally, most emissions come in the form of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel use, primarily from human activity. CO2 emissions from land use changes such as deforestation, decay of biomass, or wildfires also account for a high percentage of global greenhouse gas emissions. - Methane, or CH4, is the third highest greenhouse gas emission and this comes from both human-related and natural sources. Human-related activities include fossil fuel production, livestock and manure management, rice cultivation, biomass burning, and waste management. These activities release significant quantities of methane to the atmosphere. It is estimated that more than 50 percent of global methane emissions are related to human-related activities (U.S. EPA). Natural sources of methane include wetlands, gas hydrates, permafrost, termites, oceans, freshwater bodies, non-wetland soils, and other sources such as wildfires. (EPA, Sources and Emissions, http://www.epa.gov/outreach/sources.html). -Nitrous Oxide, or N2O, is also a greenhouse gas that is produced by both natural and human-related sources. Some human-related sources of N2O are agricultural soil management, animal manure management, sewage treatment, and combustion of fossil fuel. It is produced naturally from a wide variety of biological sources in soil and water, particularly microbial action in wet tropical forests (EPA, Sources and Emissions, http://www.epa.gov/nitrousoxide/sources.html). -F gases, or flourocarbons, include the manmade, ozone depleting gases HFC ’s, CFC’s, and HCFC’s and are banned or regulated by the Montreal Protocol and the Kyoto Protocol. The major applications that use F-gases are refrigeration, air conditioning, foam blowing agents, aerosols, fire protection and solvents.
From original 350 powerpoint -According to Jim Hansen and other scientists the main things we need to do right away are to stop coal use by 2030, dramatically reduce the use of petroleum and natural gas, and improve agricultural and forestry practices -If we manage to accomplish these things, we could get back to 350ppm by mid-century
From original 350 powerpoint
From the GP Energy [R]evolution powerpoint. NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO ATTRIBUTE! < reveal nuclear, coal, oil, gas segments> By 2050, we will no longer need any dirty, deadly nuclear energy, and we will have phased out coal almost completely. Our oil and natural gas consumption will be slashed. <reveal all renewable energy segments> To provide our energy needs – and keep in mind this is not only for electricity, but also for heating/cooling and transport – we will instead use a host of renewable energies... <reveal efficiency segment>... and we will use our energy in smarter, more efficient ways than we do today. The amount of saved energy via efficiency measures here is compared with the IEA (International Energy Agency) BAU (Business As Usual) scenario, which projects large growth rates. However, with an Energy [R]evolution, global energy demand can be stabilized on today's levels – even with a continued growth of energy demand in developing countries. ==== Source: Energy [R]evolution Figure 6.11, page 72 Note on limits: All of these technologies could be expanded to significantly greater capacity than shown here before reach absolute physical limits – unlike oil and coal which will simply run out one day. The amounts shown in this Energy [R]evolution scenario are determined based on considerations for cost, sustainability, and energy distribution, using currently available technologies. Important note on ‘energy’ versus ‘electricity’: This is the total energy demand – not only electricity. It also includes energy demand for heat and transport. For the ‘electricity demand’ graph on its own, see figure 6.6, page 68 of the Energy Revolution report.
Picture from Ipswich, Massachusetts Utilities website. http://www.ipswichutilities.org/Default.aspx?Page=ENERGY_WHY
Image is from original 350 ppt; factoid about wind power is from “IPCC briefing notes final.doc”
From Greenpeace Energy [R]evolution. Their script below. ****** Solar panels. Here’s how they work: The red and grey parts you see here are two layers of a silicon semiconductor, one negatively charged, and one positively charged. When light hits the panel – even just in small amounts – electrons move from one layer to the other, creating electric current. Photovoltaic or PV, as this kind of energy production is called, is extremely versatile… ===== More on ‘PV’: Energy [R]evolution page 54.
Factoid comes from “IPCC briefing notes final.doc” Definition: Reaching grid parity means that it is as cheap or cheaper to produce your own solar energy by putting panels on, say, your house roof, as it is to buy energy from your electric company through the power grid.
from OurFragileEarth.ppt. -Eating locally means contributing to your community ’s economy and reducing your carbon footprint by eating foods that don’t have to be shipped from long distances. -Meat production requires a tremendous amount of resources. Cows are also responsible for producing large amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Roughly one-fifth of the world's land is used for grazing. That ’s twice the area used for growing crops. X million acres have been cleared for raising cattle in the Amazon alone (or equivalent stat)
Greenpeace notes on this topic: The technological evolution in private vehicles is moving from gas guzzlers, to light cars with efficient combustion engines, to hybrids, to plug-in-hybrids and finally to electric ‘e-cars’. In some countries, the acceptance of this technological change will require cultural shifts, so that it’s no longer seen as desirable to drive a gas-guzzler (like a Hummer). To reduce aviation demand, technologies like videoconferencing can reduce the need for business travel, and high-speed trains and cultural shifts so that holidays are closer to home will also be important. Creating this sort of cultural change takes time, but it’s vitally important. More information on transport: Energy [R]evolution Chapter 11 Notes on vehicle electrification: In the Energy [R]evolution, the transition to electric vehicles does cause an increase in electricity consumption. However, because electric vehicles are more efficient than combustion engines, and also because electric systems transition to more renewable systems over time, this increase in electricity consumption pays off, and results in lower primary energy demand. Another example of efficiency in action – the ‘electric jeepney’ in the Philippines. These vehicles are the normal form of public transportation in the Philippines, and very inefficient - a regular 16 seater consumes the same amount of diesel as a large 54 seater bus. This electric one – a joint project of Greenpeace and the Climate Friendly Cities initiative – travels 55km on a single charge, with zero emissions – this is enough to run its route 17 times each day. When the project is complete, this electric jeepney will be charged with electricity created from biodegradable household wastes, in a local biodigester facility. See: Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC), ‘About Us’ http://www.ejeepney.org/?q=content/about-us Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC), ‘We’re in Top Gear http://www.ejeepney.org/content/we%E2%80%99re-top-gear Greenpeace International, ‘The magic of the Filipino jeepney’ (07/05/2007) http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/features/filipino-jeepney-green-energy-050707 YouTube, E-Jeepney ’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpAEUgcBqFU&NR=1
Images from Greenpeace energy revolution ppt. their script notes: ****** Homes with solar panels for electricity and hot water, as well as local combined heat-and-power units, would produce more energy than they need, and provide their excess energy and heat produced during the day… … to office buildings in cities, which would also produce some of their own electricity and hot water during the week. In evenings and on weekends (when the offices are mostly empty) the energy and heat would be transferred to other areas. A wind-farm, either on or offshore, can feed large amounts of electricity into a flexible grid to ensure that there is still energy when the sun isn’t shining. Another community might be totally self-sufficient and have its own, local micro-grid, which will only connect to the larger grid in the event of a local energy shortage. A central combined heat-and-power plant could run on concentrating solar, geothermal, biogas produced from a city’s local sewage plant, or from biomass feedstock from local farmers’ crop waste. This would supply both electricity and heat to the grid... … for use in domestic houses, for people’s plug-in electric vehicles, and for industrial processes. Industrial plants (which could also include urban industries such as server-farms or data-centres for the internet) will produce as much of their own energy as possible, and re-cycle their waste heat into their own heating/cooling processes and into the heating network. The most important thing to note is that energy production happens everywhere in the community, not just at a central coal or nuclear-fired power-station that everyone draws on. If you want an analogy, think of the internet. In the early days of the web, information came from centralized sources and travelled one-way – from websites to readers. Today, with social media and easy online publishing, readers are publishers too. They’re sending information the other way; the web has become interactive. The same will have to happen with energy. Merge the logic of the internet with the energy network, and you get the kind of smart grids we need in order to accommodate the combination of decentralised and centralized renewable energies the Energy [R]evolution champions. Without smart grids, trying to share decentralised energy would be a bit like trying to post a status update without having Facebook or Twitter. ===== For more on the connections between the IT and energy industries, see Greenpeace ’s ‘Cool IT’ campaign: www.greenpeace.org/CoolIT For an example of an industry providing waste heat to nearby buildings: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/20/helsinki-data-centre-heat-homes
Stats from Price Of Oil at http://priceofoil.org/fossil-fuel-subsidies/ Graph from the Environmental Law Institute ’s report “Estimating U.S. Government Subsidies to Energy Sources: 2002-2008” -Globally, the fossil fuel industry received approximately $600 billion in subsidies a year. U.S. federal subsidies for fossil fuel, from 2002 to 2008, were approximately $72.5 billion, over $10 billion a year. Meanwhile, renewables received less than $46 billion globally a year. Between 2002 and 2008, the U.S. gave $29 billion, or just over 4 billion a year and over half of that went to corn ethanol production. -By ending fossil fuel subsidies, we would have a greater chance of phasing out fossil fuels and investing that money in renewable energy research and development.
Original 350 slide AND IMPLEMENTING A THOUSAND MORE SOLUTIONS -And implementing a thousand more solutions that all add up to an energy revolution.
-Pic from USGS Handbook -Nuclear energy is not part of the Energy Revolution because uranium is not renewable and the dangers created by nuclear waste and radioactivity to humans and ecosystems are not possible to ignore (Union of Concerned Scientists, Nuclear Power Safety). -Unsustainable biofuels, such as ethanol produced from corn or sugar cane, or biodiesel from vegetable oil, create a dilemma when considering the vast amount of hunger and malnutrition in the world. These forms of biofuel increase the price of food, add to hunger, and create political instability. (http://www.oxfam.org/pressroom/pressrelease/2008-06-25/another-inconvenient-truth-biofuels-are-not-answer) -CCS, or carbon capture and storage, is a term that encompasses a number of technologies that can be used to capture CO2 from power plants and other industrial facilities; compress it; transport it mainly by pipeline to suitable locations; and inject it into deep subsurface geological formations for indefinite isolation from the atmosphere (World Resources Institute, http://www.wri.org/project/carbon-dioxide-capture-storage). However, this practice can cause contamination of water and harm to ecosystems (Greenpeace pdf, Carbon Capture and Sequestration: Potential Environmental Impacts).
Facts all come from from “IPCC briefing notes final.doc” -By 2008, renewable energy was 12.9% of global energy supply -In 2008 and 2009, investment in renewables was higher than investment in fossil fuels -And over 97% of global renewable potential is still untapped
Picture: 350 original slide, Bali, Indonesia
-According to the International Energy Agency, stabilizing at even 445 ppm would require a $45 trillion investment, which sounds like an unimaginably large amount of money — but spread over more than four decades and compared to the world ’s total wealth during that time, it is literally a drop in the bucket — 1.1% or one part in 90 of the world’s total wealth. -This cost is also insignificant when stacked up against the incalculable costs of climate change and the damage it will do to ecosystems the economy. (Climate Progress, http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2009/03/30/203888/global-warming-economics-low-cost-high-benefit/).
-In 2009, the U.S. spent about $1 billion a day on foreign oil. In 2008 the United States imported oil from 10 countries currently on the State Department ’s Travel Warning List, which lists countries that have “long-term, protracted conditions that make a country dangerous or unstable.” These nations include Algeria, Chad, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Mauritania, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. Our reliance on oil from these countries could have serious implications for our national security, economy, and environment. (Center for American Progress, http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/01/oil_imports_security.html). -In addition, because fossil fuels are not renewable and will soon, if not already, hit their peaks, increasing their costs exponentially over time. The investment for a clean energy future is much less than the cost of continuing to use fossil fuels until 2050. (Climate Progress, http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2009/03/30/203888/global-warming-economics-low-cost-high-benefit/).
Stat is from “GCCA partner action pack IPCC report DRAFT 050511.doc” – comes initially from the IEA -The total cost of transitioning to a low-carbon economy by 2050 goes up by $500 billion with every year ’s delay
Source: Economics of 350: http://www.e3network.org/papers/Economics_of_350.pdf
From GP Energy [R]evolution ppt. OUR SCRIPT MUST TALK ABOUT JUST TRANSITION FOR PEOPLE WHO LOSE JOBS **** And under the Energy [R]evolution, there will be more jobs. By 2030, there will be over 8.5 million people employed in the renewable sector, compared to only 2.4 million in the scenario without any technological evolution. Jobs in the energy sector overall, including workers in conventional power plants, will increase to 11.9 million – greater than the 8.7 million jobs in a conventional scenario. So, if governments seize the opportunity to implement the Energy [R]evolution, 3.2 million or over 33% more jobs globally will be created in the power sector, and most of those jobs will be better for workers and for the climate. ===== Reference: Energy [R]evolution report, page 69-70, 138-139, and 143-148 A note on labour and fuel costs: R enewable energies provide more human jobs per unit of electricity than fossil fuels. Because renewables have no fuel costs, higher labour costs are balanced out, and overall, renewables become cheaper than fossil energy. More of the money that the energy-consumer pays for their electricity bills goes towards paying for someone ’s job, instead of for a destructive process of resource extraction.
Overall, changing the way in which we currently create and use electricity will make our communities healthier It will help prevent the spread of parasitic diseases like malaria and dengue fever which are carried by moist, warm climate loving mosquitoes.
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-Big Oil and Big Coal will become a thing of the past as we turn towards renewable energy, which is why they ’re spending billions to stop the Energy Revolution -In recent years, we have seen an exponential increase in fossil fuel industries funding smear campaigns against politicians who support renewable energy. Also, many climate denialist authors, scientists, and organizations get a great deal of funding from Big Oil and Big Coal companies. For example: -Coal and oil lobby groups have spent $69.5 million on television ads specifically targeted against Obama clean energy policies in the mid-term elections (Center for American Progress Action Fund) -ExxonMobile gave over $1.2 million to climate denial organizations in 2009 (Greenpeace).
-In 2008, Denmark generated $13 billion in energy technology exports -In 2008, more Germans (278K) held renewable energy jobs than conventional energy jobs (238K)
These are some of the questions to ask ourselves in order to begin taking action against climate change. To learn more about the global movement towards an energy revolution, check out the “International” Module.