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Recent News
Events, projects and the latest developments at Moxy...
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Moxy demonstrates how an open, collaborative approach to modelling can reveal insights into the future of the NSW Electricity Network.
Sydney Uni, with support from Delta Electricity have embarked on the Energy 2050 Programme to provide insight into how Australia’s Electricity Network will evolve over the next 40 years in response to changes in demand patterns, introductions of new technologies and the impacts of carbon prices.
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Communities of Practice: A Silver Bullet for Knowledge Management? |
Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger brought the term Communities of Practice (CoPs) into the limelight in the early 1990s. The existence of CoPs existed before this time, identified variously as “learning networks, thematic groups, or tech clubs”.1 Over the last decade, organisations and businesses have scratched their heads over how to tap into the potential of this concept - with varied levels of success. But first, what are CoPs, and are they still a viable construct?
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Small town revitalisation takes off in Tamworth, Eastern Canada |
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 “From little things, big things grow” is a fitting theme for small town revitalisation efforts in the village of Tamworth in Ontario, Canada. This village of 750 people aims to become a best practice example in rural revitalisation, sustainability and economic self sufficiency. Leading the drive towards this goal are two remarkable individuals, Carolyn Butts and Hans Honegger of Bon Eco, who have worked since 2006 towards long-term rural community sustainability.
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Engineering Knowledge Managers |
Moxy is currently seeking to interview Knowledge Managers within engineering firms to understand how their charges go about building models in cross disciplinary teams. The questions will be used as part of research into a white paper that Moxy is writing on Communities of Practice and the peer production of analytical models.
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Welcome Damien Taillandier |
Moxy would like to welcome Damien Taillandier who is currently on a 3 month internship from the Ecole Des Mines De Nantes. Damien joins our development team and is working on the ability to visualise concepts within the Smart Wiki environment.
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Australia's Energy Commodity Security Capability in a Competitive, Transformed Economy |
Context influences all situations and thus impacts on the strategic decisions made and the tactics developed. The risk of poor decision outcomes is increased if strategic thinking is separated from key facets of the decision context, or if strategic intent and the underlying tactics become disconnected. Read More...
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Replacing imported crude oil with a domestically produced syncrude |
Can Australia replace imported crude oil with a synthetic hydrocarbon crude derived from domestic resources such as coal and natural gas or biomass? How is such a substitution best integrated into existing refining and supply infrastructure?
Moxy has been studying the question and has taken a first cut at estimating the size of the investment required. Read more...
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Comparison of Leading Bioenergy Studies |
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 There have been a variety of different studies done into the potential role that bioenergy generation may play in the Australian energy landscape, with substantially differing outcomes. A task that Moxy sees as very important is to highlight these differences and examine why they occur, in order that a better understanding may arise and allowing the debate on these issues to progress.
Taking studies done by the Clean Energy Council, the Australian Business Roundtable on Climate Change, and the CSIRO, Moxy has drawn out their conclusions and graphically identified the range of the values reported. The project report can be viewed in full here... |
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Distributed Solar Power Analysis |
What would the cost of distributed power be if implemented on a wide scale in an Australian city? In order to answer this question Moxy modeled widespread adoption of photovoltaic solar panels on residential and commercial buildings in the greater Sydney region. A variety of information sourced from federal and state governments, research bodies such as the CSIRO and private institutions was compiled with analysis derived from similar studies undertaken in California to determine long term trends. In addition, the average cost of carbon emissions is explored through the offset of traditional, coal-burning generation.
What was revealed is that, although distributed solar PV seems unlikely to out-perform centralized coal fired power, with a combination of rebates, tariffs and carbon tax, the energy source may become price competitive in the near future.
The report, findings, model and assumptions can be viewed in full here...
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Investigation Into Cost Of Renewables |
 The comparison of different technologies for power generation can be difficult due to their varying characteristics, such as availability, maintenance costs and feedstock requirements. This study compares several renewable technologies through investigating real world installations - two biomass facilities, a solar PV plant and a wind farm.
By comparing their levelized cost of energy production over a uniform project lifespan, it becomes apparent that, at least in the installations investigated, biomass is very competitive as compared to the other technologies. A significant factor in this is the average capacity factor, or the amount of time that the plant is capable of producing at its capacity. Due to the ability of a biomass electricity generator to operate contiuously with a reliable supply of feedstock.
The report, findings, model and assumptions can be viewed in full here... |
| Martin is a recent graduate of Sydney University and will be helping Moxy to build a prototype of our Collaborative Modelling Environment. Martin has a degree in Computer Science and Technology and has recent experience writing extensions to connect the R open source statistical math software into wiki pages. |
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