Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11117.pdf [From Highlights] The electric industry is increasingly incorporating information technology (IT) systems into its operations as part of nationwide efforts—commonly referred to as smart grid—to improve reliability and efficiency. There is concern that if these efforts are not implemented securely, the electric grid could become more vulnerable to attacks and loss … Continue reading »
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Mapping the Impacts of Natural Hazards and Technological Accidents in Europe
European Environment Agency http://tinyurl.com/65kjapb [From publication page] The report assesses the occurrence and impacts of disasters and the underlying hazards such as storms, extreme temperature events, forest fires, water scarcity and droughts, floods, snow avalanches, landslides, earthquakes, volcanoes and technological accidents in Europe for the period 1998-2009.
Knowledge Management Database (KMD) of DOE Documents
US Department of Energy http://www.netl.doe.gov/KMD/ [From database home page] This portal provides four options for searching the variety of documents and data that NETL-managed oil and natural gas research has produced. The database includes Office of Research and Development (R&D) materials carried out under both historical and ongoing DOE oil and natural gas R&D programs … Continue reading »
The Electrification of the Transportation System: Issues and Opportunities Symposium
MIT http://web.mit.edu/mitei/docs/reports/electrification-transportation-system.pdf [From Report Web Page] On April 8, 2010, the MIT Energy Initiative, together with Ormat, Hess, Cummins and Entergy, sponsored a symposium on: The Electrification of the Transportation System: Issues and Opportunities. The symposium’s 68 participants, all experts with wide-ranging backgrounds and points of view, helped to frame the issues, opportunities, and challenges … Continue reading »
Parking Infrastructure: Energy, Emissions, and Automobile Life-cycle Environmental Accounting
Environmental Research Letters / Mikhail Chester, Arpad Horvath and Samer Madanat http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/5/3/034001/fulltext [Abstract] The US parking infrastructure is vast and little is known about its scale and environmental impacts. The few parking space inventories that exist are typically regionalized and no known environmental assessment has been performed to determine the energy and emissions from providing this infrastructure. A better … Continue reading »
Energy Evaluation and Economic Impact Analysis of Green Roofs Applied to a Pilot Region in Aegean Coast of Turkey
Imzir University of Economics / Serdar Çelik, William Retzlaff, Susan Morgan, Ayla Ogus Binatli, Cemil Ceylan http://eco.ieu.edu.tr/wp-content/wp1001.pdf [Abstract] This paper examines the energy savings, environmental benefits, and economic impact of green roof systems applied to a “micro” region in Western Turkey. This subdivision (Artur) in Karaağaç, Izmir, consists of 1729 residential units, mostly used as … Continue reading »
