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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…
Authors:
Hassan Shavandia, Department of Industrial Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran,
Mehrdad Pirnia, WISE Member/Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
J. David Fuller, Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
Abstract:
This paper finds near equilibrium prices for electricity markets with non-convexities due to binary variables, in order to reduce the market participants’ opportunity costs, such as…
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Apr 10, 2019, 06:30 ET
TORONTO, April 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- ITC Holdings Corp. ("ITC"), a Fortis company, today issued its support of the Independent Electricity System Operator's ("IESO") recently announced planned changes to the structure of its electricity auctions.
ITC's proposed Lake Erie Connector ("LEC") project will complement the IESO's efforts to save Ontarians billions of dollars in energy costs by creating a new corridor…
Science of The Total Environment
Available online 24 March 2019
In Press, Accepted Manuscript
Abstract
The emerging threat to the coastal urban ecosystems from increased intensity and frequency of weather events is a compelling reason for improving our understanding of the integrity of the existing ecosystem. Resilience of an ecosystem is a critical property that aids recovery and adaptation when subject to intense stress. Quantifying the resilience of an ecological system requires a detailed…
Roydon Fraser, Michael Fowler, Satyam Panchal, Manoj Mathew, Ibrahim Dincer, Martin Agelin-Chaab
An electric vehicle (EV) is only as good as the battery that powers it. Battery performance drives vehicle performance and reliability — and ultimately the willingness of consumers to trade their conventional car for an electric version.
Various numerical models have been developed to predict the behaviour of batteries. But to be useful to EV designers, they have to reflect real-world conditions as accurately as possible. That’s where WISE researchers come in.
A team headed up by mechanical…
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