energy industry information Articles
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Efforts in improvement of nuclear knowledge and information management in Croatia
The IAEA was authorised for exchange of technical and scientific information on peaceful uses of atomic energy and established INIS in 1970 as an international bibliographic database in the nuclear field and in nuclear related areas. Countries at different levels of technological development could derive benefits from INIS output products. The use of nuclear technology relies on the accumulation ...
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Ensuring future energy alternatives: the role of resource planning in forming long-range energy and environmental policies
Many of the energy and environmental issues facing the world can be characterised as a combination of 1) complex problems, 2) dispersed solutions, and 3) finite resources. Identifying and implementing rationale and environmentally responsible energy strategies under these conditions requires considerable co-ordination among policy-makers, technology developers, energy service providers and the ...
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Is a Aspherical Camera Lens Better than a Spherical Lens?
The aspheric When it comes to the lens, you have to mention the aspherical lens. In many people's understanding, the asperical lens is a symbol of high level, and the advanced lens is almost all aspherical lens. Let's start with what is called a aspherical lens. The aspherical lens is contained in the camera lens, aspheric is often calculated according to the surface, some aspherical lens side, ...
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How risky are energy efficiency investments?
Last week’s announcement of $8.3 billion – and possibly as much as $54.5 billion – in US federal loan guarantees for nuclear power plants sparked debate about risk of default on loans. What are the chances the plants will be built? Critics unearthed a Congressional Budget Office report citing a 50% risk the projects will fail. The Department of Energy countered that the report is seven years old ...
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Energy efficiency and Weight Watchers
By Elisa Wood April 27, 2011 We’ve been hearing for years that the energy efficiency industry needs to find its equivalent to the cell phone. These days industry folks refer to it as the ‘killer app,” the revolutionary product or service that consumers can’t resist. But lately, partly because I’m dieting, I’ve been thinking what energy efficiency really needs ...
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CHP: Not the Brad and Jen of energy, but….
I hesitate to start this blog with the words “combined heat and power.” You might stop reading. Okay, so it’s not the Brad and Jen of energy. (That would be solar and wind.) But what it lacks in glamor, it makes up for in constancy and results. It’s an old guy, been around for about a century. And while its name might not sound green, it offers an extraordinarily ...
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Energy efficiency and a cold marriage
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