UseAnalyticato find out...
to see how much your decisions reduce greenhouse gas emissions,
and to evaluate all the energy, environmental, and economic costs
and benefits.
Analysts can use Analytica themselves. Or Lumina's experienced
consultants will be glad to customize an assessment for you. You
may offer a tool to your customers to to provide a custom-tailored
evaluation of your products for their own organization.
Either way, using Analytica, you will get results with an ease
and speed that you may find surprising.
To learn more...
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Lumina at WIREC
2008
Visit us in person in Washington DC at WIREC
2008 Exhibition at booth 1048, March 3 to 5, 2008. Email us
by February 29th if you'd like a free one-day pass to the Exhibit
Hall. WIREC is the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference
at the Washington DC Convention Center. WIREC visitors are eligible
for a 20% discount on Analytica or a free 1 hour consultation with
one of our experienced analysts.
Here are some examples of how people are using Analytica to assist
with green decisions:
Assessing
the value of R&D by DoE How will R&D on new technologies by the US Department of Energy
improve the economy, environment, and energy security? The National
Renewable Energy Lab with six other national labs, assisted by Lumina,
is developing SEDS, an Analytica model to evaluate priorities for
the DoE’s portfolio of energy R&D programs.
Fueling
cars from Brazilian sugarcane Ethanol from sugarcane provides Brazil with over 35% of its automobile
fuel. Dr. Adriano Azevedo consults to the Brazilian biofuels industry
to help them optimize production of sugar, ethanol, and electricity,
and hedge
against risk from weather and price volatility.
Saving
energy and cost in datacenters The cost of energy for power and cooling at many datacenters and
server farms now exceeds the cost of the servers themselves. There
are many new products and services designed to reduce datacenter energy
use. But, it's challenging for managers to figure out what combination
will reduce total cost of ownership, while providing sufficient capacity
and reliability. Lumina has created a prototype tool to help them,
the Analytica Datacenter Energy Planning Tool or ADEPT. More..
Estimating
methane from Canadian livestock It turns out that methane from cows, pigs, and sheep contributes
more to greenhouse effects than cars, trains, and planes. Canada fulfills
its Kyoto Protocol duty to estimate greenhouse gas emissions from
livestock using an Analytica model to assess the uncertainties. More..
Importance
Analysis helps green building design Stanford University's Center for Integrated Facility Engineering
(CIFE) is a leading research center for virtual design for architecture,
engineering, and construction. Caroline Clevenger, a Research Assistant
and LEED-accredited architect and John Haymaker, Assistant Professor
at CIFE, are investigating how multidisciplinary design and analysis
processes can lead to improved building performance and reduced environmental
footprint. More..
Integrated
assessment of the Clean Air Act 1990 The groundbreaking Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 was the first
environment legislation in the US to use market incentives - tradeable
permits to emit sulfur dioxide. How effective was this legislation
at improve air quality and reduce acid rain? A team of over 30 scientists
at 11 organizations developed TAF as an integrated environmental assessment
to help answer this question for the National Acid Precipitation Assessment
Program (NAPAP). More..
The human effects of global climate
change
ICAM (the Integrated Climate Assessment Model) is a long-term systems
dynamics model of the interactions between greenhouse gases, global
climate change, and human activities, including the energy use,
economics, technicology innovation, health, and populations at regional
and global levels. It compares a wide range of policies, including
avoiding, mitigating, and adapting to climate change. ICAM is possibly
the most sophisticated environmental model created with Analytica.
Experiments with ICAM have generated a wide range of valuable insights
and numerous publications. More..
How can a buyer know what products
are really green? Green purchasing offers a way for organizations to reduce
their environmental footprint — by considering the environmental
impact of products and services in their buying decisions. For this
to be practical, they need a convenient way to assess these environmental
impacts. To meet this need, Sylvatica used Analytica to develop
the Environmentally Preferable Purchasing tool for the Texas
Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). More..
Green
Decisions: Case Studies
