Modern food production depends on limited natural resources for providing energy and fertilisers. We assess the fossil … fuel dependency for the Danish food production system by means of Food Energy Returned on fossil Energy Invested (Food …-EROI) and by the use of energy intensive nutrients from imported livestock feed and commercial fertilisers. The analysis shows …

resulting energy consumption of mechanized agriculture without negatively affecting economic development has become a major …As agricultural mechanization accelerates the development of agriculture in China, to control the growth of the … total diesel consumption in agriculture in 2010. Technological progress has led to a decrease in the unit diesel consumption …

advantages within the context of sustainable energy use. Designing, monitoring and controlling such systems requires the …

energy consumption and CO2 emission on the environment. This paper proposes Shadow Replication, a novel fault-tolerance model … for cloud computing, which seamlessly addresses failure at scale, while minimizing energy consumption and reducing its … leads to significant energy reduction, and is better suited for compute-intensive execution models, where up to 30% more …

A high penetration of wind energy into the electricity market requires a parallel development of efficient wind power …

traditionally involve performance constraints such as energy-related criteria. Dialectic form finding is an extension of the process … integrating energy-related design aspects. In this paper, dialectic form finding is employed as an approach for designing high …

Efficient systems for high performance buildings are required to improve the integration of renewable energy sources … and to reduce primary energy consumption from fossil fuels. This paper is focused on sensible heat thermal energy storage …