Encyclopedia of Global Resources part 69 doc
Encyclopedia of Global Resources part 69 doc
... conversion of one gram
of matter per second would produce energy at the
rate of nine trillion watts.
The main particles contained in the nucleus of an
atom are protons and neutrons. The mass of a given
nucleus ... nucleus. The separation of the nucleus into its
constituent particles would require replacement of
this energy. The binding energy per nucleon is a mea-
sure of the...
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... Aggregates Global Resources
A Global Partnership
The opening paragraph of the Preamble to Agenda 21 pre
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sents an unusually stark statement of the challenges facing
humanity atthe beginning ofthe twenty-first ... oxygen, present in ordinary air,
Global Resources Acid precipitation • 3
Overview
The invention of photography was announced in
1839 at the joint meeting of the Ac...
Encyclopedia of Global Resources part 7 doc
... contrib-
ute to amore efficient use of global resources. In addi-
tion to the plastics industries, the ACC represents the
producers and distributers of chlorine.
As part of the global warming and climate ... isotope. Measurement of the
ratio of this decay product to the remaining alumi-
num 26 allows determination of the age of the object,
in much the same way that the ra...
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... Sites
U.S. Department of Energy
About the Department of Energy: Origins and
Evolution of the Department of Energy
http://www.energy.gov/about/origins.htm
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Science: ... resources, and 2.6 times the quantity of
recoverable resources, of Kazakhstan. Australia’s ura-
nium resources are also known for having a relatively
low cost of extracti...
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... and
marketable in the global economy.
Managing Biodiversity
Humans are part of an evolving lineage and are also
part of global biodiversity. Human population growth
and the integration of rural, formerly ... gas with
108 • Biofuels Global Resources
Biofuel Energy Balances
The following table lists several crops that have been consid-
ered as viable biofuel sources and severa...
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... populations con
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126 • Biotechnology Global Resources
OriginOil cofounderNicholas Eckelberry standsbeside containersof algaethat he and his
company hope can be used as a biofuel source. (Reuters/Landov)
tinue ... reductioninthe cost of production of an
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imal products. As with plants, disease-resistant ani
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Global Resources Biotechnology • 127
Rambler, MitchellB.,Lynn Margulis,...
Encyclopedia of Global Resources part 21 doc
... reservoir of carbon may be found on
the surface of the Earth. Most of this reservoir is in
rock and sediment. Since the “turnover” time of such
forms of carbon is so long (on the order of thousands
of ... the finite supply of low-entropic
resources.
In 1972, the Club of Rome, a group of distin-
guished scientists, published The Limits to Growth,pre-
dicting the depletion...
Encyclopedia of Global Resources part 28 doc
... and
Global Resources Conservation biology • 247
is, there is a limit to the number of people that can be
supported by the Earth. The rate of resource deple-
tion is a function both of the rate of ... ownership
of resources through vehicles such as trusts to avoid
depletion of natural resources mostly nonrenew-
able resources is another proposal being debated.
Those involve...
Encyclopedia of Global Resources part 30 doc
... CERT set out to inven-
tory the resources of the tribes of the West and found
that they controlled one-third of U.S. coal and ura-
nium resources and large supplies of petroleum and
natural gas. ... Nicolaus Steno established the first law of crystallog
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raphy in 1 669, known as the law of constancy of inter-
facial angles. The law holds that for all crystals of a
given m...
Encyclopedia of Global Resources part 38 docx
... Power
http://www.energy.gov/energysources/
electricpower.htm
See also: Biofuels; Coal; Cogeneration; Department
of Energy, U.S.; Energy economics; Energy Policy Act;
Energy storage; Fuel cells; Geothermal and hydro
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Global Resources Electrical ... quantities of many other species. Just as
in architecture the removal of a keystone leads to the
collapse of an arch, the extinction...
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