There are about half a million natural gas wells in the United States. Two technologies have fueled the rapid expansion of shale-gas wells, horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”). Horizontal drilling enables production from relatively […]
In a previous blog I had mentioned the National Commission on Energy Policy’s report Task Force on America’s Future Energy Jobs which focusses on the workforce issues facing the electric power industry at a time when it […]
Saturday journalists were allowed inside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant for the first time since the Sendai earthquake and subsequent tsunami. The journalists wore full protective gear. They were led around the Fukushima Daiichi palnt […]
I blogged previously about some of the massive water diversion projects around the world, perhaps the most dramatic of the results of which is the incredible shrinking of the Aral Sea, where an entire fishing industry […]
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has announced a survey on the business value of open standards. The survey is a joint effort by two academic researchers who are OGC members and by the OGC Business […]
Jackie Ng has announced MapGuide Maestro 4.0 RC1. According to Jackie this release re-introduces the Package Editor feature, which has been missing since Maestro 2.1 and includes a big bucket of fixes and small improvements […]
Autodesk University takes place November 29 to Dec 1 in The Venetian in Las Vegas. This year there are over 650 classes organized in 21 tracks and 10 PowerTracks on topics such as innovation strategies, […]
The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is a global climate change reporting system. Over 3,000 organizations in 60 countries measure and disclose their greenhouse gas emissions, water management and climate change strategies through CDP. The data is […]