Green Energy and Technology - Energy for a Warming World Part 9 doc

... seems a daunting task, if just democratic and market levers are employed. On all the available evidence, it will call for voter and consumer manipulation of a truly Machiavellian quality and scale ... Flywheel energy storage Forcing Atmospheric warming over and above natural solar warming Fossil fuels Carbon based energy sources such as oil, natural gas, and coal....

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... especially apposite in relation to the older industrialised nations in North America and Europe, and for nations such as Japan, Australia and New Zealand. To avoid an engineering skills dearth ... global warming is real and measurable and that it can no longer be ignored. A transition from fossil fuels to renewables is inevitable – sooner rather than later. The financial...

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... ocean/sea surface displacing it fractionally against the much stronger earthly gravitational force. At full-moon and new-moon the gravitational tug is largest, since the moon and sun are aligned, ... the agency of the wind, is also the source of the energy contained in ocean and sea waves. These waves are mechanically sustained surface waves that propa- gate along the interface bet...

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... 186 5-3 537 ISBN 97 8-1 -8 488 2-8 3 3 -9 e-ISBN 97 8-1 -8 488 2-8 3 4-6 DOI 10.1007 /97 8-1 -8 488 2-8 3 4-6 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue ... direct solar warming. The additional greenhouse gases in the atmosphere which Green Energy and Technology Alan J. Sangst...

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... natu- ral lunar cycle. The location of power stations at Manukau harbour and Waitemata harbour, for example, which are relatively equidistant from Auckland, would lessen power supply variations ... from a mid-Atlantic weather station indicate that average wave power levels of 80 MW/km of wave front are potentially available there, if wave machines could be located safely and rel...

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... geothermal activity associated with this fault ring is to be found in Alaska, California, Mexico, Central America, the An- des mountain range, New Zealand, Indonesia, Philippines, Japan, Kamchatka, and ... and the Aleutian Islands. Other examples are Iceland, which is the largest island on the Mid-Atlantic boundary of the North American and Eurasian plates, and the East African Ri...

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... composed of alkali metals such as sodium, lithium and potassium, which are the most reac- tive of metallic materials. Nickel–cadmium and nickel–zinc batteries are also being re-examined and have been ... nuclear reactor applications, and cer- tain nitrate/nitrite mixtures have been widely used as heat transfer fluids in moder- ate temperature industrial storage applications. Thermal...

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... Second, such facilities are versatile in terms of storage capac- ity, and third, they are modular. Furthermore, charge rate, discharge rate and ca- pacity can be treated as independent variables in ... Technology Required For a parallel plate capacitor the capacitance in farads is easy to compute, being proportional to the area between the plates and inversely proportional to the...

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... that car and aircraft manufacturing be terminated, to make all of the fabrication and assembly plants of the automobile and aeronautic industries, and the vast number of suitably skilled and ... con-merchants, or stay for their safety within secure walled and fenced holiday hotels and condominiums? Artificial sunshine, artificial suntans, and arti- ficial beaches are, of c...

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... 110 ammonia, 103 Ampere, 29 Andes, 75 Angier, Natalie, 42 anode, 104 Antarctica, 3, 9, 36 antenna aerial, 30 cone, 59 appliances pump, 43 Arabia, 65, 72 Arctic, 4, 16, 108 Arctic ... 89 axis, 89, 90 bearing, 91 clutch, 91 containment, 89, 92 disc, 88, 89 explosion, 92 , 120 farm, 91 , 93 friction, 91 high speed, 90 , 93 inertia, 89 material, 88, 89, 9...

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