Greener and Smarter: Information Technology can Improve the Environment in Many Ways

Vickery, Graham; Mickoleit, Arthur

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“…Application of ICTs can contribute to sustain electricity supply network while minimising adverse environmental impacts (Wissner, 2011;Vickery and Mickoleit, 2013). The concepts from supply chain management are combing aspects of system-wide integration (Pramod and Banwet, 2011) and extended key-performance indicators (Pramod and Banwet, 2011).…”

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Advanced wind power management: model of information flows and ICT-system interconnections in electricity supply chain

Lahti¹,

Helo

Shamsuzzoha

2014

IJBIS

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Advanced wind power specific systems, applications and approaches are necessary in order to function effectively. Due to the characteristics of wind power, it creates uncertainty to the electricity supply chain. In order to function efficiently in the power market business, it is crucial to recognise relevant factors and positioning their associated information. This descriptive study analyses and identifies the power market business and its accompanying information flows and connections. This paper shows that effective management of information in the electricity supply chain requires interconnections of several separate information and communication technology (ICT) systems. This study proposes a generic enterprise architecture to manage the data chains and information flows within the scenario of multiple energy ICT systems. As a result, this study also presents a proposal of an advanced enterprise architecture model that describes both system interconnections and wind power related information flows.

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Advanced wind power management: model of information flows and ICT-system interconnections in electricity supply chain

Lahti¹,

Helo

Shamsuzzoha

2014

IJBIS

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“…The starkest example in the consideration of material overconsumption is the smart phone [12]. This was developed within the paradigm of business as usual to improve the way in which we communicate.…”

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“…This is the time scale on which synthetic fibre comprehensively displaced wool from most of its markets. Indeed, rather than speak of peak oil, we can speak of peak farmland-we will need smaller areas in future to feed the world, and we will oversee the managed return of excess land to the wild [11].The starkest example in the consideration of material overconsumption is the smart phone [12]. This was developed within the paradigm of business as usual to improve the way in which we communicate.…”

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Why a collapse of global civilization will be avoided: a comment on Ehrlich & Ehrlich

Kelly

2013

Proc. R. Soc. B.

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Ehrlich FRS & Ehrlich [1] claim that over-population, over-consumption and the future climate mean that 'preventing a global collapse of civilization is perhaps the foremost challenge confronting humanity'. What is missing from the wellreferenced perspective of the potential downsides for the future of humanity is any balancing assessment of the progress being made on these three challenges (and the many others they cite by way of detail) that suggests that the problems are being dealt with in a way that will not require a major disruption to the human condition or society. Earlier dire predictions have been made in the same mode by Malthus FRS [2] on food security, Jevons FRS [3] on coal exhaustion, King FRS & Murray [4] on peak oil, and by many others. They have all been overcome by the exercise of human ingenuity just as the doom was being prophesied with the deployment of steam engines to greatly improve agricultural efficiency, and the discoveries of oil and of fracking oil and gas, respectively, for the three examples given. It is incumbent on those who would continue to predict gloom to learn from history and make a comprehensive review of human progress before coming to their conclusions. The problems as perceived today by Ehrlich FRS and Ehrlich will be similarly seen off by work in progress by scientists and engineers. My comment is intended to summarize and reference the potential upsides being produced by today's human ingenuity, and I leave the reader to weigh the balance for the future, taking into account the lessons of recent history.The population explosion (and its Malthusian societal disruptions) that Ehrlich FRS predicted for the 1990s has not come about [5,6], and the concerns in this present Ehrlich paper are not tempered by the mounting evidence of the demographic transition that occurs when the majority of people live in cities and have access to education. In Japan, Europe and North America the population, excluding immigration, is in decline. Some studies indicate that a peak of 9 billion people in 2050 will be followed by a decline to a population of approximately 6 billion in 2100-less than that in 2000 [7] and bringing new problems of unwanted infrastructure assets! The UN is revising its future population estimates downward [8]. If we look at the waste in the contemporary food chain, at the point of growth, in transit to the market and into the homes of consumers, and compound that loss by the amount of food thrown out rather than consumed, we generate the quantity of food to feed the 9 billion today with the systems in place if we were less wasteful and could distribute it [9].Animal protein is now being generated in the laboratory and not on the farm [10]. Where is the discussion of the impact of mega-cities being self-sufficient in animal protein from factories within their city boundaries 40 years from now? This is the time scale on which synthetic fibre comprehensively displaced wool from most of its markets. Indeed, rather than speak of peak oil, we can speak of peak farmland-...

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Including Software Aspects in Green IT: How to Create Awareness for Green Software Issues

Kern

Guldner

Naumann

2018

Studies in Systems, Decision and Control

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Greener and Smarter: Information Technology can Improve the Environment in Many Ways

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Advanced wind power management: model of information flows and ICT-system interconnections in electricity supply chain

Advanced wind power management: model of information flows and ICT-system interconnections in electricity supply chain

Why a collapse of global civilization will be avoided: a comment on Ehrlich & Ehrlich

Including Software Aspects in Green IT: How to Create Awareness for Green Software Issues

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