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Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...Energy Strategy Fellow and Professor of Sustainable Energy at Imperial College is interviewed by Roger Harrabin for 'Stories of Change'...[Jim Skea] Jim Skea has research interests in energy, climate change and technological innovation. He has been RCUK Energy Strategy Fellow since April 2012 and a Professor of Sustainable Energy at Imperial College since 2009. He was...
Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud
Nature & Environment

Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud

...energy use. Cloud technologies live in data centres, and data centres are estimated to account for 1% to 1.5% of global energy consumption. The data transmission networks that connect them to each other and everything else, a further 1%. [A data centre in China]A data centre in China. An IEEE article suggests that cloud technologies account for almost all of the 1% to...
How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?
Nature & Environment

How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?

...energy, the rate of growth might indeed slow from exponential to simple linear models. Organisations might be tempted to consider digital carbon footprints inconsequential when compared to other parts of their business but given the points above and the continual digital transformation of entire industries, this would be a miscalculation. The opportunity presented by...
Reducing the carbon footprint of on-premises IT
Nature & Environment

Reducing the carbon footprint of on-premises IT

...energy road to decarbonisation, we should all adopt more carbon and environmentally conscious attitudes to purchasing and disposal, since this will have the greatest collective impact for years to come. Working with procurement, IT managers can significantly cut the embodied carbon cost of their assets through a circular IT approach to extending technology lifetimes,...
Light: Wave-particle duality
Science, Maths & Technology

Light: Wave-particle duality

...energies remained the same. Decreasing the wavelength of the light, however, caused the electrons to be emitted with a higher maximum energy. Conversely, increasing the wavelength of the light beyond a particular cut-off value (specific to each metal), caused the emission of electrons to cease. The explanation was that light interacts with matter as if it is composed of a...
Unsolved problems in cosmology
Science, Maths & Technology

Unsolved problems in cosmology

...energy. These gaps in knowledge are frustrating for anyone who would like to understand the nature of the Universe. In this free course, Unsolved problems in cosmology, you will learn about what the current unsolved problems are and about the possible ways in which they may be solved in the future...The science of cosmology has been very successful in explaining a wide...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Soaring by Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Soaring by Design

...energy change, providing a useful way of modelling the behaviour of a glider in the air. This material makes up part of the course MST209, Mathematical methods and models... Soaring by Design A short introduction to this album. Modeling Flight Introducing the forces a glider is exposed to during flight. Avoiding Collisions Demonstrating the change of energy when a pilot...
Smarty pants: wearable electronics will recharge your life
Science, Maths & Technology

Smarty pants: wearable electronics will recharge your life

...energy harvesting systems needed to charge them. The body electric Piezo is a term derived from a Greek word meaning to squeeze or press, and piezoelectric materials generate electricity when they are pressured or twisted – enabling development of shoes, clothing or recreational gear that generate electricity from movement. Flexible batteries can be used to store the...