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WISE Member Catherine Rosenberg weighs in on the much talked about 5G topic!
Amid much fanfare, Canada's Big 3 telecom companies introduced fifth-generation networks in major cities earlier this year and a few smartphones with 5G capabilities are now available for sale.
Yet after years of promises about next-generation wireless powering self-driving cars and robotic surgery, it's still unclear exactly what the newly launched networks are currently able to do.
The short answer, experts say, is that it will take years to understand the true potential of 5G.
Catherine…
Originally posted by Jeff Semple, Global News
June 14, 2020 11:00 am
The original article can be found here
Paul Koch woke up one morning last month and peered out his kitchen window to find a trespasser taking a dip in their backyard pool.
“I called my wife and said, there’s a moose in the pool!”
Koch said the 800 lbs female swam a few laps and then stood calmly in the shallow end for several hours. He called police, who watched as the moose eventually made her own way out of the backyard.
A report by Jatin Nathwani and Raynier Ramasra
Published online by Balsillie School of International Affairs in the Balsillie Papers
The Post-COVID-19 Economy: Financing Canada’s Leadership in Sustainable Energy
The current federal government returned to deficit spending while the economy was still expanding, which reduced the available fiscal capacity when the COVID-19 pandemic began. With interest rates already near historic lows, current monetary capacity to stimulate the economy is also diminished. Yet while no serious voice would suggest the government stop its current efforts to sustain the economy, the politicians…
Written by WISE Member Professor Maurice Dusseault
The combination of the Coronavirus shutdown and the KSA’s (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) attempted punishment of Russia’s oil producers and America’s shale oil frackers has shocked the Canadian oil industry profoundly. Price collapse happened in a few weeks, and no producers in Canada are profitable at the prevalent prices in the third week of April, 2020. The question in Canada is not how to respond, but how to survive, and the short-term survival options for Canadian producers are few.
Technology:…
This week, oil futures fell below $0 per barrel. What happened? What is Canada’s plan for helping the industry at home, and will it be effective?
We put these questions to Professor Jatin Nathwani, Executive Director of the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy.
Originally published by the University of Waterloo.
THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2020
To see Professor Nathwani answering, click here.
What is happening in the global energy market? Why are we seeing oil prices below $0 per barrel?
Global energy markets are in turmoil for two reasons: a dramatic drop in demand because large parts of the global economy are in a 'lockdown' and the second reason, in simple terms, is that we are in a global recession.
The reason we are seeing oil…
Written by Jatin Nathwani, Founding Executive Director of WISE for the Hill Times
WATERLOO, ONT.—Although the final pages on the unfolding human tragedy of the COVID-19 pandemic have yet to be written, the ‘tsunami-scale’ of economic disruption has led to responses by the federal and provincial governments that the most acclaimed of futurists could not have predicted even six weeks ago. If the adage, ‘Do not let a good crisis go to waste’ has any resonance, this is the perfect opportunity to re-set and re-confingure Canada’s energy sector away from dependence on oil and gas.…
Hill Times op ed by WISE Executive Director
The COVID-19 pandemic has arrived in our midst. This is a historic opportunity for the oil and gas sector to transition to a low carbon energy economy.
Prof. Nathwani is the Ontario Research Chair in Public Policy for Sustainable Energy and Executive Director of WISE
Professor Jatin Nathwani was recently invited to give a lecture at the Energy Transitions Research at the University of Cambridge. The original posting is available here:
https://www.energy.cam.ac.uk/news-and-events/Events/mending-broken-lives-with-clean-energy-solutions
Professor Nathwani will briefly describe the global change initiative –“Affordable Energy4 Humanity’ launched at the University of Waterloo to advance sustainable solutions for most disadvantaged populations. Specifically, he will highlight the features of a project – ‘Mending Broken Lives with Clean Energy Solutions’ - designed to serve at least 500,000 people at refugee camps in Eastern Africa and provide access to electricity, cooking, clean water and support to health and educational…
Professor Jatin Nathwani, Executive Director WISE participated in the Canada -UK SMR Civil Society Roundtable held at Canada House, London as part of the Canadian Delegation led by associate Deputy Minister, Shawn Tupper, Natural Resources Canada.
The Civil Society Roundtable was organized by Energy for Humanity
Please see the Civil Society Declaration Calling for a Critical Decade of Clean Energy Collaboration here.
And the press release here: http://energyforhumanity.org/news-events/news/news/press-release-global-civil-society-call-high-profile-nuclear-presence-cop26/
Please watch this inspiring video address here from Bertha Dlamini, President, African Women in Energy and Power.
5 March 2020
“In this critical decade we must expand the suite of clean energy options to include nuclear products that…
WISE is pleased to welcome Ambika Opal into the role of Manager, Global Programs and Initiatives
In this role, Ambika will manage the Affordable Energy for Humanity (AE4H) global change initiative, a multi-stakeholder research and action initiative at the intersection of energy research and international development. She will also manage the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship program and will support WISE’s other interdisciplinary research and programmatic objectives.
Ambika received her Bachelor of Applied Science in systems design engineering from the University of Waterloo, and her Master…
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