Next week is Autodesk University in Las Vegas, which I am looking forward to especially for the utility-related courses and labs. But if you can’t be there is person, 200 classes in English, Spanish, and […]
Project Parsec is a technology preview that is available for free down load on Autodesk Labs. It is designed to work with AutoCAD Map 3D. It enables you to import and map geometries and attributes […]
The latest Mars rover was launched November 26 10:02 EST on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. The lanch vehicle had been rolled out to Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. […]
I blogged previously about tracking the progress of tornadoes across Alabama Power’s territory by mapping non-respondng smart meters. The University of Tennessee Power Information Technology Laboratory has used a network of small, low-cost devices that plug […]
Accepted values of the climate sensitivity to atmospheric CO2 doubling suggest 3 °C as the best estimate and finite probabilities for much higher values implying a small but significant chance of high-impact climate changes. By […]
In Ontario most consumers have smart meters and are paying for electric power based on time-of-use pricing. Smart meters track your power usage by the hour. In Ontario time-of-use pricing is based on different rates […]
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released its annual World Energy Outlook for 2011 (WEO-2011). 2000-2010 In the past decade 2000 to 2010, almost half of the world’s demand for energy has been provided by coal, […]
India has announced plans to build an Advanced Heavy Water Reactor (AHWR) designed to use thorium as fuel. India has very little uranium which was the initial motivation to develop a thorium reactor. The reactor […]