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Howard University first to develop a Microgrid
Posted by Mark Hewitt in Building Information Modeling, Cooperatisim, Earth Day, Economy, Science and Engineering on June 25th, 2010
Alternative Energy
Today Pareto Energy and Howard University announced the first every MicroGrid partnership. Organized around co-generation technologies the proposed MicroGrid will allow highly efficient technologies to simultaneously produce electric and thermal energy used for space heating and cooling among other things.
The build out will take about two years to complete and based on the Memorandum of Understanding (”MOU”) the engineering phase will begin immediately. Howard University is only one of five academic facilities in the nation with a core competency in SmartGrid and MicroGrid design and development. Guy Warner, founder and CEO of Pareto Energy when asked about MicroGrids is quoted “They’re also efficient, secure and often renewable energy sources that create jobs while eliminating the threat of power interruptions that cost Americans billions of dollars every year”
Managing Complexity
Posted by Mark Hewitt in Building Information Modeling on December 27th, 2009
by Mark Hewitt
During our evolution as a species mankind has created social and political systems that have
The Games that People Play
tended to rise and fall based on complex systems. Complex systems tend to reach a point where failure is the only option as has recently been proven with our credit based economic system. Economists and fund managers have been making this statement for many years declaring our system of credit based currency to be unsustainable.
Complexity in currency is only one faucet of social and political complexity our system of laws and security fall into the same unsustainable path – one of my favorite speakers on this topic is Barry Schwartz – his TED presentation on our “Loss of Wisdom” sums up our human values and actions.
ABC did a couple of shows giving us an example of how Modern Game Theory helps us to understand the ebb and flow of not only ourselves but the things around us. In this show PrimeTime producers take six teams and set them free in Read the rest of this entry »