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Stay Informed
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CACOR's weekly newsletter
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Welcome to Stay Informed, CACOR's weekly newsletter. It contains all the latest updates to the CACOR Website. Signup and previous weekly newsletters are available here.
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Archived Articles Revisited:
This is your weekly personal list of three random articles extracted from our website archives. These links are unique to you and are more than one year old. The intention is to deliver a sense of what was considered a priority on that date compared with today's latest articles and presentations. You are encouraged to share these links with your social media and other networks.
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From the Atlantic Council "About the conference With world leaders convening in Bali for the G20 summit, the Atlantic Council Global Food Security Forum, running from November 12 – 13, 2022 at the Sofitel Bali Nusa Dua Resort, took a collaborative, cross-sector approach to addressing the global food security challenges of today and envisioning the more resilient food systems and …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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Canadians are Running on Empty I am 2 days late writing this weekly reflection. Too much on my plate – and I am retired with money in the bank! It makes no sense that I and many Canadians I know are exhausted. We’re running on empty. Financially from inflation, absurd home prices, an inability to even order a car at …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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Qui vit content de rien possède toute chose. (Who is content with nothing possesses all things.) Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, poet (1636-1713) Three and a half centuries later, CACOR member Mike Nickerson makes a related observation in a meme of just four words: More Fun, Less Stuff. Mike Nickerson suggests that such a meme can nudge past the narrative of earn and spend …
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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Researchers develop a scalable fabrication technique to produce ultrathin, lightweight solar cells that can be seamlessly added to any surface. MIT engineers have developed ultralight fabric solar cells that can quickly and easily turn any surface into a power source. These durable, flexible solar cells, which are much thinner than a human hair, are glued to a strong, lightweight fabric, …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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In May 1995, AH (Drew) Wilson, Chairman of the Board, gave his introduction on the three-person panel that discussed the World Problematique that preoccupied CACOR in 1995. Nicole Morgan, Morris Miller, and Fred Belaire then discussed the matter. Mr. Wilson speculated on whether CACOR might be able to pursue further discussions through a third working group. Link to | AGM …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Proceedings, CACOR Writers
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While the most talked about use cases for microgrids revolve around integrating renewables, peak shaving, grid supplementing, grid resiliency and smart controls, it is important to envision and unlock the potential of microgrids a little further. When we combine artificial intelligence, data analytics and forecasting, cloud services and asset communication across various sections of an industrial activity beyond just power …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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By John Lorinc My wife and I live in a 110-year-old semi-detached house in midtown Toronto. Like many homes across the country, the walls are brick and thus uninsulated. We’ve chipped away at draft-causing gaps over the years, but given, well, climate change, we needed to go a big step further and significantly cut our natural gas consumption. When the federal …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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Key indicators of how humans are changing the Earth: Sea level, species, carbon dioxide, sea ice, population, daily temperature extremes, annual climate change performance by country, air pollution, temperature records, climate change indicators, top ten emitters, historic emissions, electric vehicles.
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Progressing Toward Well Being An excellent presentation on the way forward. Presentation Slides...
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The automaker says that the charging stations will need to meet these three criteria over a 60-day period in order to be added: Have at least one compatible charging connector Be frequently used by Tesla drivers at least once every four days Have an average charge success rate of 90% or higher The stations will be removed from the navigation …
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TORONTO — A new report from Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) suggests Ontario is in a strong position to decarbonize its growing electricity grid, with a moratorium on new natural gas generation being feasible starting in 2027, provided new storage, nuclear, renewables and expanded conservation efforts are ready. The report was requested by the minister of energy and is …
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Reminder of who Nicole Morgan is: Dr. Morgan, full professorship at the Royal Military College of Canada, was the most recent stop in a rich and varied academic life spread over two continents and subject matter specialties. The current manifestation of these comprehensive interests is a focus on the impact of globalization on human ecology, conceived not only as the …
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Ontario is in a strong position to decarbonise its rapidly growing electricity grid, provided new storage, nuclear, renewables and expanded conservation efforts are ready to meet growing demand, according to a new report from the province's Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO).
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The energy crisis is an opportunity as well as a challenge. As the clock ticks over into 2023, researchers must deliver answers to protect the green-energy transition. Market turmoil and geopolitical realignment after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine put livelihoods and the green-energy transition at risk. Here’s how researchers can help overcome the threats.
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Some commodity costs are followed from January 2020 until June 2022 in a 55 second video that will get your attention.
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Just Have a Think Internet usage is projected to account for 20% for all global electricity consumption by 2025. So anything that can help to reduce that catastrophically large number must surely be good thing. Now scientists in Copenhagen have successfully demonstrated a chip that can send enough data every second to cope with the entire internet's traffic, all at …
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Here is a summary of the project: 55 electric buses operating from the depot Zenobe’s charging optimization software monitors overall depot energy flows including buses, charging rates, solar consumption, and battery performance. Secured a larger grid connection to the site (additional 1.5 MVA) Commissioning of a 1.25 MW/2.5 MWh battery system to support the bus charging, storing solar power for …
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