ERCIM News No. 92 Special theme: "Smart Energy Systems"
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ERCIM News No. 92 has just been published at
http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en92
Special Theme: "Smart Energy Systems"
Guest editors: Carl Binding, IBM Research Lab, Switzerland and Han
La Poutré, CWI and Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Since the invention of the steam engine by James Watt, this paradigm has lead towards tremendous improvement of life quality in the developed world, and developing countries eagerly aspire to similar energy standards.
However, the price of this hunger for energy is increasing. Fossil fuel resources such as oil or gas are becoming harder to explore, even leading to environmental disasters as with the Gulf of Mexico oil-platform, recently. Exploration of shale gas (“fracking”) causes negative environmental impact, beyond the well-known CO2 problematics. Besides the sheer availability of fossil energy, associated CO2 emissions have caused wide-spread concerns about impacts on climate and on human health (fine particle emissions).
http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en92/special
Keynote: "Smart Energy Systems – A European Perspective" by Ariane Sutor
http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en92/keynote
This issue for download in pdf:
http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/images/stories/EN92/EN92-web.pdf
Includes: Research and Innovation
A Projector as Mobile Visualization device on an Assistive Robot (p.48)
by Paul Panek, Christian Beck, Georg Edelmayer, Peter Mayer and Wolfgang L. Zagler
(see call at http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/call)
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Peter Kunz
ERCIM News central editor
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Additional links [by PJ]:
The Communication Initiative Network - Natural Resource Management
UNESCO: Renewable and Alternative Energies