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Amirreza Razmi, Madjid Soltani, Mohammed Tayefeh, Mohammad Torabi, and Maurice.B. Dusseault
Call it a double win. WISE researcher Maurice Dusseault and his Iranian collaborators have proposed a system that tackles two global imperatives: cutting carbon emissions and addressing water shortages at the same time.
Renewables like wind and solar offer green sources of electricity. But to be viable on a large scale, we need a way to store excess energy when production is high and demand is low. To achieve this, Dusseault’s colleagues in Iran (Dr. Madjid Soltani, the second author, is a WISE…
WISE invites you to explore the Summary Report from the Science and Technology in Society Forum held from October 6th to 8th, 2018 in Kyoto, Japan. As Chair of the “Energy – Net-Zero Emissions” session, Jatin Nathwani, Founding Executive Director of the Waterloo Institute led the discussion which called for innovative solutions to meet the twin challenges of a low-carbon world combined with equitable energy.
This prestigious annual forum is organized by the Government of Japan and Chaired by the…
Deadline: October 7, 2019
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On behalf of the Partner Organizations (EnDev, GIZ, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT, REPIC, Siemens Stiftung, SNV and WISE) and the Scientific Committee, we are pleased to invite you to join the third International Conference on Solar Technologies and Hybrid Mini-Grids to improve energy access, at the Unversitat de les Illes Balears in Palma, Spain on April 1-3, 2020.
The main objective of the conference is to provide an opportunity for an exchange between practitioners from the industry,…
Ontario Power Generation (OPG), in collaboration with MaRS Discovery District, has recently launched the Generate Innovation Challenge to help identify new technologies that drive innovative, future-looking solutions impacting the Canadian energy landscape.
This crowd-sourced competition calls on startups, scaleups, entrepreneurs, academics, scientists and researchers from across Canada to submit ideas, technologies or solutions to four core issues (workforce and planning; inspection automation;…
Talal Alharbi, Kankar Bhattacharya, and Mehrdad Kazerani
The battery in an electric vehicle (EV) faces serious performance demands every time the driver steps on the accelerator or the brake. So after a number of years, when its capacity has dropped 20 to 30 per cent, it gets replaced.
But that retired battery can still function well in less demanding applications — like stationary energy storage systems of microgrids — where the fluctuations in power/energy and charge are much smaller.
Because the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always…
Hyung-Sool Lee, Ziyi Xiong, and Abid Hussain
In North America, we throw out roughly 400 kilograms of food waste per person each year. The bulk of those potato peels and chicken bones ends up in landfills, where it creates methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
Some municipalities take a greener approach. Some burn the methane to produce electricity, but that’s an expensive process. Others use anaerobic digestion to break down food waste, but the value of the resulting compost isn’t high.
Hyung-Sool Lee, director of the Waterloo…
Keith W. Hipel, Byomkesh Talukder, Gary W. vanLoon
Producing food consumes a lot of energy — and, as a result, creates a significant proportion of the world’s greenhouse gases. As the global population grows and the planet continues to heat up, it becomes more important than ever to produce food efficiently.
That’s why WISE member Keith Hipel, along with colleagues at York University and Queen’s University, recently scrutinized five different agricultural systems in coastal Bangladesh to compare energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions.
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Thursday, April 24, 2019
An engineering professor at the University of Waterloo with a lifelong interest in environmental protection has won a prestigious national award for scholars.
Keith Hipel, a professor of systems design engineering who earned his three degrees as a student at Waterloo, was named today as one of five winners of 2019 Killam Prizes through the Canada Council for the Arts.
Given annually to eminent, active scholars in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, health sciences and engineering,…
BRONWYN LAZOWSKI
STUDENT, FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENT
RESEARCH FELLOW, WATERLOO INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
Waterloo researcher is helping families adopt smart technology and smart practices for sustainable living
By Sam Toman, University Relations
Originally posted here: https://uwaterloo.ca/global-impact/smart-home-technology-needs-smart-people
The key to any healthy relationship is communication. The same can be said about our relationship to home energy use.
That makes Bronwyn Lazowski a kind of therapist for our dysfunctional home energy patterns. She studies everyday energy consumer patterns…
The Energy Council of Canada Energy Policy Research Fellowship will provide $500,000 over 10 years to graduate students engaged in energy policy research. Annual fellowships valued at $15,000 for Master's students and $25,000 for Doctoral students will be awarded to eligible full-time graduate students registered at the University of Waterloo. Students must demonstrate interest in energy policy research defined annually by the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (WISE) in conjunction with…
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