In the last year or so I have come across a number of UAVs at the various conferences I have attended. They range from hexacopters to fixed wing aircraft, but all of them suffer from […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that 2.1 billion fish, crabs, and shrimp are killed annually by being pinned against cooling water intake structures (impingement) or being drawn into cooling water systems and affected […]
MultiSpeak was developed under the auspices of the National Rural Electric Assn (NRECA) and is intended as an industry-wide standard for the exchange of information for electricity distribution utilities and all vertically-integrated segments except power […]
Currently investment in energy is about $1.6 trillion per year. Most of today’s investment spending, well over $1 trillion per year, is spent on extracting, transporting, and refining fossil fuels or building coal and gas-fired […]
A draft schedule of presentations at FOSS4G 2014 in Portland has been posted. It includes eight tracks over three days, plus invited talks and keynote speakers. Together the speakers represent 20 different countries.
The OSGeo Korean Chapter has announced that Seoul, South Korea has been selected to host the 2015 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) international conference in September 2015. This is the first time […]
Fossil fuel-fired electric generating units (EGUs) are, by far, the largest emitters of GHGs, primarily in the form of CO2, among stationary sources in the U.S. On JUne 2, 2014 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency […]
Locating underground infrastructure in Bahrain Bahrain is one of the few places in the world which attempts to maintain the location of all underground infrastructure in a single database. As I blogged in 2009, the […]