According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA) since 2005 renewables have risen from 8% of total electricity generation in the U.S. to 13% in 2015. In 2015 non-emitting sources, renewables and nuclear, provided a record […]
The “levelized cost”, which is the present value of the total cost of building and operating a generating plant over its financial life, aims at making the costs of different generation technologies comparable. The US […]
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has just released its International Energy Outlook 2016 (IEO2016). IEO2016 projects that world energy consumption will increase by 48% between 2012 and 2040. China and India are expected to […]
Methane is one of the more potent greenhouse gases for global warming. The concentration of methane in the atmosphere stabilized from about 1999 to 2007, but since 2007 began rising again. A recent study suggests that […]
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has released Failure to Act: Closing the Investment Gap for America’s Economic Future, which is a 2016 update to 2013 report Failure to Act: The Impact of Infrastructure […]
The writer and his wife, Heather Stewart visited grandchildren in Iqaluit for three weeks in April During the first week in Iqaluit, we went to a public lecture by David Pelly on his new book […]
Global based technology company eCapture announced today the launch of its versatile and intuitive software eyesMap3D, to generate accurate 3D models and point clouds, which measure directly from images. What are the benefits of using […]
Teledyne Optech is pleased to announce that Pickett and Associates has upgraded their airborne surveying capabilities with the highly advanced Optech Galaxy lidar system, delivered on April 1, 2016. An existing client of Teledyne Optech, […]