The data contains building information, such as building age, built year, reported year, building area, primary type, ENERGY STAR® rating, energy use percentile of fuel type, monthly and total site/source Energy Use Intensity (EUI), and carbon emissions intensity. As building energy use is ...
The April 2024 Consumer Price Index of All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) report indicates that inflation rose by 0.3% for the month, a notch belowMarch’sincrease (+0.4%). These data were released at 8:30 am EST on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. ...
In October the only retirements noted were three internal combustion engines fueled by Distillate Fuel Oil at the Church Street Plant in the City of Manassas – (VA) amounting to 2.6 MW, a 10 MW Natural Gas Fired Combustion Turbine in Tallahassee, FL, two Natural Gas Fired Steam Turbines at...
A new report,‘Net Zero and Beyond What Role for Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage?’ from Chatham House, a London-based think tank, warns that ‘Policymakers are in danger of sleepwalking into ineffective carbon dioxide removal solutions in the quest to tackle climate change’. The pap...
on Systematic Reviews debunks this viewpoint—in particular the Standish Group’s ‘Chaos Report’ that claimed to find ‘huge project overruns.’ Apparently Standish Group ‘deliberately solicited’ failure stories—thus ‘one of the most frequently cited papers on project overruns cannot be trusted....
A recent report inThe Lancetdescribed the ‘pandemic of physical inactivity’ as the ‘fourth leading’ cause of death worldwide. Well you may say that the ‘fourth leading’ cause of death is probably not worth worrying about and I would agree. But there is a much better reason to get fi...
The authors conducted a survey earlier this year to find that 50% of large companies report ‘significant use’ of probabilistic uncertainty analysis. Unfortunately, lack of management understanding, inter alia, means that such analyses are not reflected in improved decision making. The bottom line ...
departure from its previous ‘allegiance’ to the Microsoft Upstream Reference Architecture. MURA is apparently absent from the DDSR—as indeed it seems to have been from Microsoft’s own Global Exploration Forum—see our report on page 7 of this issue. More from PointCross onepsales@pointcross...
How about a statement like ‘the fuel consumption of a Ferrari F50 is 75 liters/100 km’ (also made up)? Capturing the first factoid in an RDF statement is pretty trivial, the second is not so easy. If you have an engineering mindset, you’ll see the potential pitfalls of typos in ...
held late last year in Atlanta, a worthwhile contribution to the debate. The GWPC has been working to track the health of the US’ groundwater with its ‘risk-based data model’ and theFracFocusportal. You can read our report on page 5 of this issue and/or checkout the meeting’sprese...