As I have blogged about before, shale-gas has transformed the energy market, especially for electric power generation in the U.S. As a result of more efficient gas generation specifically combined cycle gas turbine technology and […]
I blogged recently about some of the issues around shale gas extraction using hydraulic fracturing (fracking). In the last year the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has undertaken to study the impact of shale gas […]
In 2009 NASA and the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) released the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) global digital elevation model (DEM), which covers about 99% of the Earth’s […]
Several indicators have been used as evidence of global warming including atmospheric CO2 concentration, surface temperature, sea level rise, arctic ice extent, land ice, antarctic ice volume, and others. According to the Berkeley Earth Surface […]
Galileo is the European civilian Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). Galileo has been developed as a collaboration between the European Union and the European Space Agency (ESA). Galileo is capable of positioning accuracy without earth […]
I blogged previously about early results from the annual American Water Works (AWWA) State of the Industry (SOTI) survey that were released at the ACE11 conference in Washington earlier this year. The SOTI 2011 report […]
The Andasol 3 solar electric power generation plant in Andalucia in southern Spain has opened. The plant’s capacity is 50 MW and uses parabolic trough mirrors that follow the sun during the day. The mirrors […]
The Task Force on Climate Remediation of the U.S. Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) has released a report entitled Geoengineering: A National Strategic Plan for Research on the Potential Effectiveness, Feasibility, and Consequences of Climate Remediation […]