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Chris and Penny Hamlin explain how real-time data and dynamic insights can drive sustainable change
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Engineering Net Zero Part 9C: Strategy Options for our Future Energy System
David Simmonds continues his mini-series by looking at some of the unintentional consequences of strategy decisions, and recommends hybrids as a long-duration DSR measure.
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Piper Alpha: The Disaster in Detail
Fiona Macleod, chair of the Loss Prevention Bulletin Editorial Panel, and Stephen Richardson, an expert witness in the Piper Alpha, review the causes of the Piper Alpha disaster, the findings of the investigation, and challenge you, the reader, to answer a series of questions about safety where you work.
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The problem of methane emissions at Malaysia's palm oil mils can be turned on its head - if the industry buys in to biogas
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THE cheap, abundant and seemingly limitless energy supply of the 20th Century driven by fossil fuel consumption led to unprecedented economic growth and improvements in quality of life. But much like financial debt, the long-term cost will ultimately be higher than the short-term gain. Society has reaped the short-term benefits of fossil fuel consumption and the environmental bailiffs are now at the door.
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Engineering Net Zero Part 3: Turning up the Heat for Consumers
David Simmonds argues that there is no one-size-fits-all energy efficient solution to heating our homes – not that consumers would necessarily want that anyway
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Using Bow Ties to Classify Barriers
Not all parts of a process safety management system are of equal importance
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Managing ALARP in Major Engineering Projects
How to identify threats and achieve ALARP on a big scale
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David Simmonds explains the challenges of pursuing major projects sustainably
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