I have blogged previously about the aging workforce challenge facing the US, Western Europe(especially Germany), South Korea, Australia, Canada, and Japan. Government projections of population decline in Japan are unparalleled anywhere else in the world, […]
The OGC Open GeoSMS Standard is an extended Short Message Service (SMS) encoding and interface for exchanging location content between devices or applications. The OGC has just announced that the OGC membership has voted to […]
Following last year’s well-attended international FOSS4G conference in Denver Colorado, the North American community of free and open source geospatial software developers, users, and advocates are planning a regular annual event in North America. The […]
President Obama in his State of the Union speech specifically called out infrastructure as requiring significant investment. He said that “our infrastructure used to be the best”, and mentioned countries such as Russia, China, South […]
The impact of hydraulic fracturing on water quality in the US is getting a lot of attention, most recently from the EPA nationally and specifically in Wyoming. Last year the Wilderness Society surveyed the fracturing […]
In the US historically electric power utilities have attempted to build enough capacity to meet peak load. For example, California uses 5% of its electric power generation capacity less than 50 hours a year. But […]
Yesterday at Distributech Utility University John D McDonald, currently with GE, presented the perspective a very experienced electric power industry veteran, but also of a visonary and a pioneer, on substation automation and managing the […]
Yesterday at the Distributech Utility University, Erich Gunther, Ron Farquharson, Sandy Bacik, and Christian Perreault gave a very well researched, in-depth overview of the state of smart grid in North America. Starting from the premise […]