Heating, electricity and transportation are the three components of urban systems final energy consumption. Geothermal energy and biomass are two promising renewable energy resources that can be used for the production of heat, electricity and biofuels, thus allowing a reduction of fossil fuel consumption and of the associated greenhouse gas emissions. The goal of this paper is to assess the po...

in recent years, the issue of energy consumption modeling techniques in the building sector has been widely considered by researchers and managers. researches indicate that energy consumption in residential sector is one of the main parts of the total consumption. moreover, the urban residence is supposed as a significant consumer of energy in every country and therefore a focus for energy cons...

Cloud computing can reduce power consumption by using virtualized computational resources to provision an application’s computational resources on-demand. Autoscaling is an important cloud computing technique that dynamically allocates computational resources to applications to match their current loads precisely, thereby removing resources that would otherwise remain idle and waste power. This...

as there is a rapid growth both in the number of power consumers and also the limitations energy resources, it is clearly accepted that the old version of power grid must change into smart grid from head to toe. one of the most important advantages of smart grid which makes it much more exclusive rather than other typical systems is the two-way connectivity between the utility and the costumers...

municipal solid wastes (msws) vary in terms of quality and quantity, especially their toxic content. the efficient and sound disposal of msws not only needs implementing an integrated management procedure, but also performing a conservative way to reduce the impacts on resources. in the present research, after characterization of msw streams and consideration of disposal methods practiced in si...

Public awareness of water- and drought-related issues is an important yet relatively unexplored component of water use behavior. To examine this relationship, we first quantified news media coverage of drought in California from 2005 to 2015, a period with two distinct droughts; the later drought received unprecedentedly high media coverage, whereas the earlier drought did not, as the United St...

globally excessive consumption of hydrocarbon fuel in transport sector is a serious threat to the civilization due to paucity of fuel in future. also this growing use of vehicles for transport is contributing about 70% of total air pollution and causing environmental and ecological imbalances. thus the worldwide fast depletion of conventional energy resources and impact of emissions on environm...

Mobile Ad hoc network, the author of this paper the energy consumption of a larger problem, analyses the reasons of large energy consumption. Mobile Ad Hoc network node has very limited resources, especially energy, through the design of effective power control strategy combined with routing to reduce the network energy consumption is very important and necessary. And as the goal, put forward t...

This paper addresses the problem of run-time management of a service centre energy efficiency by using a context aware self-adapting algorithm. The algorithm considers the service centre current context situation and predefined Green/Key Performance Indicators (GPI/KPI) to adapt and optimize the service centre energy consumption to the incoming workload. The service centre energy performance co...