Tag Archives: climate

All-Electric BC Transport

October 30, 2019 | UVic News

“If all vehicles in British Columbia were powered by electricity instead of liquid fuels by 2055, BC would need to more than double its electricity generation capacity to meet forecasted energy demand—and the move could prove surprisingly cost-effective.

The finding comes from a team of University of Victoria researchers with the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS), and will be published in the November issue of Applied Energy.”

The Applied Energy article co-author, Curran Crawford, also has several of his open access papers in UVicSpace.

Are you looking for more open access works along the same line as Crawford’s work? UVicSpace allows you to search by subject! Visit our home page and select the right hand ‘Browse’ menu then select the ‘Subjects’ option. To get you started try typing in the following search terms to the ‘Browsing by Subject’ search :

  • renewable energy
  • renewable integration
  • electricity markets
  • wind energy

UVicSpace is an open access learning and research repository for published and unpublished digital scholarly works by the UVic community and its partners.

The forgotten and vital secret beneath our feet

December 9, 2019 | UVic News

A University of Victoria hydrologist is one of an international group of scientists and experts who are calling for action to protect global groundwater resources—which make up 99 per cent of the Earth’s liquid freshwater.

Tom Gleeson is lead author of a Nature Correspondence statement published this week [December 9, 2019], that says we are not doing enough to protect and manage global groundwater resources from contamination, salinization, depletion and neglect. Inaction, they say, will result in long-term effects on the planet’s drinking water, food production, and ability to adapt to a rapidly changing climate.

To read more of Tom Gleeson’s important and timely work we invite you to visit UVicSpace where over 20 of his papers can be readily accessed