The interdependence of water and electric power is a critical world issue especially in areas of water stress and rapidly increasing population. According to the USGS in 2000 thermoelectric-power (coal, natural gas, and nuclear) withdrawals […]
Watermain Breaks According to the Watermain Break Clock , on average 700 watermains break per day in Canada and the U.S., and as of today since January 2000, there have been 2,834,755 watermain breaks, costing […]
Over the past 3 years, Autodesk has made a serious effort to do business more sustainably. Two important objectives were to measure carbon footprint consistently and to become a more carbon-efficient company by reducing greenhouse […]
FOSS4G is the global conference for free and open source geospatial software. FOSS4G is organized by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). This year, FOSS4G will be held in Denver, Colorado. With the growth in […]
A recent article, “What if Geometry was called Video Games”, by Joe Astroth makes an important point. He refers to Green Hornet, a very recently released film, which uses much of the same visualization technology […]
It is estimated that the total available supply of natural gas in the US is about 2,000 trillion cubic feet, equivalent to about 100 years of supply at current rates of consumption. Incredibly in 2009 […]
There’s a fascinating article in Nature Geoscience that links burning coal to the the Permian–Triassic (P–Tr) extinction event, that occurred 251.4 million years ago when up to 96% of all marine species and 70% of […]
Last October I had the opportunity to the visit the Počerady coal fired power plant that has a capacity of about a GW. At peak production the power plant consumes 1000 tonnes of coal and […]