Continuous, high-data-rate visual sensing and processing in the field is important for intelligent transportation, environmental monitoring, and area / context awareness. Rechargeable batteries in self-sustainable systems suffer from adverse environmental impact and fast aging. Advancements in supercapacitor energy density and low-power processors have reached an inflection point, where a data-...

Researchers for the electricity industry, national laboratories, and state and federal agencies have begun to argue that the country could face water shortages resulting from the addition of thermoelectric power plants, but have not attempted to depict more precisely where or how severe those shortages will be. Using county-level data on rates of population growth collected from the US Census B...

The energy-water nexus has been studied predominantly through discussions of policy options supported by data surveys and technology considerations. As the degree of coupling between the energy and water systems is affected by the design and operation of various engineered system components, our understanding of the nexus and ability to tackle its associated challenges would be enhanced by a sy...

Water scarcity is a current problem in many parts of the planet and there worldwide concern about water availability to meet future demand. In countries like Brazil, where most electricity produced by hydroelectric power plants, directly impacts energy production. The water–energy nexus related impacted CO2 emissions its climate consequences, which calls broader approach: energy–carbon–water ne...

This article mobilizes insights from political ecology analysis. Specifically, it focuses on how power asymmetries between stakeholder groups may or not produce uneven socio-environmental outcomes in the tourism-water nexus Barbados. Small Island Developing States (SIDS) like Barbados, which obtains an estimated 90% of its water groundwater aquifers, are particularly vulnerable to changing patt...

The impact of power transmission lines on property values remains insufficiently explored and inconclusively theorised. This paper provides a platform for examining what appears to be a general phenomenon of price depreciation of land abutting power lines. A large scale international literature review is organised in terms of a thematic model as a prelude to a précis of key papers discussing th...