... from renewable resources, as they become the only source of power that mankind can safely access Naturally all views, assertions, claims, calculations and items of factual information contained in ... was apparently the hottest in Europe since 1500, but it was also a year of severe hurricanes Causal connections between climate change, particularly global warming, and hurricanes have been a ... presumption appears to have developed, for whatever reason, that the amount of power that mankind can potentially harness from hydro, wind, wave, sun and other renewable resources, is more than large...
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... repulsion forces that cause the ‘bad hair day’ may seem very weak, but in fact a crude comparison with gravity suggests that electrical forces in atoms are vastly larger than gravitational forces by about ... 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 ... law of conservation of energy In the absence of any external agency the ball can gain no more potential energy than it started out with and therefore Dawkins had no qualms that the ball would return...
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Green Energy and Technology - Energy for a Warming World Part 3 docx
... contained in ocean and sea waves These waves are mechanically sustained surface waves that propagate along the interface between water and air The restoring force that underpins the wave dynamics ... Renewability In Chap we have already explored aspects of gravitational theory at the Newtonian level, which is more than adequate for explaining earthly phenomena The gravitational physics we learned ... or antenna Before the advent of digital radios, the action of tuning a radio to a favourite radio station literally involved turning a knob that was directly attached to a set of rotating metal...
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Green Energy and Technology - Energy for a Warming World Part 4 ppsx
... ‘booms’ form a two dimensional horn, at the ‘throat’ of which is a ramp This ramp feeds the enhanced waves towards an artificial lagoon well above sea level The major problem with sea and ocean waves ... tidal range should be at least m Assessments of technical and economic feasibility of tidal barrages are site specific Some locations are particularly favourable for large tidal schemes because ... of calculation I hasten to add, tidal stream developments are in their infancy because exploitation is complicated by the fact that the natural stream in a geologically formed sea channel, can...
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Green Energy and Technology - Energy for a Warming World Part 5 pot
... Kamchatka, 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 Rift Valley ... and geothermal activity associated with this fault ring is to be found in Alaska, California, Mexico, Central America, the Andes mountain range, New Zealand, Indonesia, Philippines, Japan, Kamchatka, ... vast areas of land and sea with wind, wave and solar farms, 80 Limits to Renewability far beyond today’s acceptable boundaries In my long experience, major technical advances generally take about...
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Green Energy and Technology - Energy for a Warming World Part 6 pot
... available naturally, multiple wells may be required, to first form the air pocket, and second to maintain it Leakage statistics for this method of storage are less favourable than for salt caverns ... Furthermore, for gas storage such caverns are practically ‘leak tight’ For example, it is estimated that the two salt cavities at Huntorf leak no more than 0.001% of the volume of the air in each cavity, ... present day economy, energy is produced and transferred as heat, the potential for thermal energy storage (THES) merits serious examination as a facilitator for a future economy based on renewables...
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Green Energy and Technology - Energy for a Warming World Part 7 pps
... voltage and the charge storage capacity of the parallel plate system, termed the capacitance [37, 38] Technology Required For a parallel plate capacitor the capacitance in farads is easy to compute, ... proportional to the area between the plates and inversely proportional to the separation distance [38] For example, m × m square plates in air, separated by a distance of cm, exhibit a capacitance ... products and materials that have been activated by neutron absorption This heat associated with radioactive decay will remain for some time even after the reactor is shutdown The heat is carried away...
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Green Energy and Technology - Energy for a Warming World Part 8 pot
... decide 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 ... sunshine, artificial suntans, and artificial beaches are, of course easy All ‘holiday needs’ could be available, in the future, at a local emporium, and all powered by renewable electricity! At a local ... equivalent of war [25], only this time as a war of cooperation, a war to save the Earth That is what it will take [26] If global warming, and the battle to counteract it, which calls for a ‘gigantic...
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Green Energy and Technology - Energy for a Warming World Part 9 doc
... mortgage association (FNMA) Flywheel energy storage Atmospheric warming over and above natural solar warming Carbon based energy sources such as oil, natural gas, and coal US federal home loan ... Prospects for future climate change and the reasons for early action Journal of Air & Waste Management Association, 50:735–786, 2008 This article is a clear and comprehensive summary of the global warming ... Unknowable 145 and cultivated land It calculates the movements of major parameters such as population (through births and deaths), capital stock (through investment and depreciation), arable land...
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Green Energy and Technology - Energy for a Warming World Part 10 pdf
... 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 Ocean, Arizona, 73 Ascherson, Neal, Athanasiou, ... tesla, 32 magnifying glass, 69 mains electricity, 33 manganese, 104 Manhattan, 42 mankind, 146 Manning, Aubrey, manpower, 21, 74, 134, 140, 142 manual, Manukau, 65 marine, 63 mass, 46, 47, 86 mass ... outflow, 48, 51 oxygen, 3, 27, 103 P Pacific Ocean, 25, 75 Pacific Plate, 75 Pandora, 52 paradigm shift, 18 paradox, 146 Paraguay, 11 Pascal, 86 patent, 137 pentamaran, 137 people-movers, 134 Philippines,...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20
Do it yourself home energy audit: A step-by-step guide for identifying and improving your home’s energy efficiency pot
... Install heat traps and an insulation blanket if you have a water heater that is more than 15 years old Replacement tanks should have an EF (Energy Factor) rating of over 62 for gas and 93 for ... spray foam to seal leaks Attic/Crawl Space/Basement Use spray foam to seal irregular gaps around pipe and wire penetrations Caulk is effective for small holes In attics, crawlspaces and basements ... even a garage Floor insulation for these areas is often overlooked Check cantilevered areas for insulation and air leaks At a cantilevered floor over a porch, garage or basement you may find a light...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 23:20
BLUEPRINT FOR A SECURE ENERGY FUTURE ppt
... undertaken as part of the National Ocean Policy Alaska – Onshore and Offshore Development: Facilitating responsible development in Alaska poses unique challenges, given that many areas of Alaska are ... CLEAN ENERGY FUTURE Harness America’s Clean Energy Potential The Challenge A global race is underway to develop and manufacture clean energy technologies, and China and other countries are playing ... Administration’s strategy for creating clean energy markets is the Clean Energy Standard to meet the goal laid out by President Obama in his January 2011 State of the Union Address A Clean Energy Standard,...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:20
Báo cáo khoa học: A novel plant protein disulfide isomerase family homologous to animal P5 – molecular cloning and characterization as a functional protein for folding of soybean seed-storage proteins docx
... TGTAAAG TGTAAAG + ) + )95 )1100 )1470 ACACacG ACACttG ACACaaG + + + + ) ) ) ) ) )140 )1100 )1596 )1632 )140 )1100 )1596 )1632 )1874 CAaaTG CAagTG CAaaTG CAaaTG CAaaTG CActTG CAttTG CAgtTG TGAGTCA ... peptide was constructed as follows The DNA fragment was amplified from GmPDIM cDNA by PCR using the primers 5¢-GACGACGACAAGATGC ACGCACTCTATGGAGC-3¢ and 5¢-GAGGAGAAGC CCGGTTCATAGCTCATCCTTGCTTGAAG-3¢ ... forward primer 5¢-CGGAACCAAAACATGC TAACATTTTC[FAM]G-3¢ (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) and the reverse primer 5¢-CGTTACAGGCAACTTGTTTCTCA-3¢ were used for detection of GmPDIM mRNA ER fractionation...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 04:20
!! maximum energy for life a 21 day strategic plan to feel great, reverse the aging process, and optimize your health
... Performance Levels All of us have a chronological age and a health age One of the hardest tasks we face in the workplace and in life is learning how to manage our health and performance so that ... Ⅺ Ⅺ Ⅺ Ⅺ Financial Performance 41 My financial assets to financial debt ratio is at least 2:1 42 My taxes are up-to-date 43 I have a completed will that is accurate and updated 44 I save 10 percent ... them Performance Assessment Questionnaire Psychological, Emotional, and Spiritual Performance SomeNever times Always I spend at least fifteen minutes a day in meditation I am able to manage all my...
Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 17:53
the quest for a fusion energy reactor an insiders account of the intor workshop apr 2010
... assessment The basic force balance on a tokamak plasma is between a confining magnetic pressure that would compress the plasma and an 24 the quest for a fusion energy reactor outward plasma gas kinetic ... identified as a physics topical area for assessment in the INTOR Workshop The startup, operation, and shutdown of a large EPR plasma with an internal fusion heating source was an area that had not at ... particles and energy in tokamaks was then (and remains today) an area of active plasma physics research, and reliance on empirical scaling laws was necessary for prediction of how much external power...
Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 23:38
báo cáo sinh học:" “More money for health - more health for the money”: a human resources for health perspective" pdf
... Global Health Workforce Alliance: The Kampala Declaration and Agenda for Global Action Geneva, Switzerland: Global Health Workforce Alliance; 2008 [http://www.who.int/workforcealliance/Kampala%20Declaration%20and ... TOTAL ODA to HRH BILATERAL ODA 684,931 MULTILATERALODA 216,403 TOTAL ODA 901,335 PERCENTAGE of ODA to HRH Source: Global Health Workforce Alliance Kampala Declaration and Agenda for Global Action ... delivery].[http://www.un org/apps/sg/sgstats.asp?nid = 4796] Global Health Workforce Alliance: The Kampala Declaration and Agenda for Global Action Geneva, Switzerland: Global Health Workforce Alliance; 2008 [http://www.who.int/workforcealliance/Kampala%20Declaration%20and...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Some fixed point-type results for a class of extended cyclic self-mappings with a more general contractive condition" pdf
... Harjani, J, Lopez, B, Sadarangani, K: A fixed point theorem for mappings satisfying a contractive condition of rational type of partially ordered metric space Abstr Appl Anal 2010, (2010) (Article ... 0 a (1 − α1 ) > − α1 and ® A ∪ A with >a ≥ 0, β1 = a0 a ≥ a1 ≥ a − A1 ∪ A2 a β1 = > It is noted that the condition (3.1) is not guarana0 − α1 teed to be contractive for any point of A1 It is also ... equality defining a circle Aa1 for a fixed a1 = a1 (x0, y0) ≤ a- a’ is defined below together with available point-dependent lower and upperbounds: De la Sen and Agarwal Fixed Point Theory and Applications...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20
báo cáo hóa học: " Exponential energy decay and blow-up of solutions for a system of nonlinear viscoelastic wave equations with strong damping" ppt
... for b = and b = and for a wider class of relaxation functions He established a more general decay result, for which the usual exponential and polynomial decay results are just special cases For ... and polynomial decay for a quasilinear viscoelastic problem Nonlinear Anal 68, 785–793 (2007) Messaoudi, SA: General decay of solutions of a viscoelastic equation J Math Anal Appl 341, 1457–1467 ... Pitman Monographs and Surveys in Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol 35,Wiley, New York (1987) Cavalcanti, MM, Domingos Cavalcanti, VN, Soriano, JA: Exponential decay for the solution of semilinear...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 00:20
Báo cáo hóa học: "Setup, efforts and practical experiences of a monitoring program for genetically modified plants - an Austrian case study for oilseed rape and maize" pptx
... related species were considered for the calculation: Brassica elongata, B juncea, feral B napus, B nigra, feral B oleracea, wild and feral B rapa, Conringia austriaca, C orientalis, Crambe tatarica, ... as the standard reference grid for all spatial statistic data in Austria Hence, we have a direct spatial link between our BINATS test areas and a wide range of socioeconomic and agronomic statistics, ... -Grassland cover -Average annual temperature -Average annual precipitation Spatial layers of these variables were intersected with our sample grid in a geographic information system [GIS], and...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20
Báo cáo toán học: "More Constructions for Tur´n’s (3, 4)-Conjecture a" doc
... E C D E conditions a and b different colors a blue a red (a red and a below u) or (a, b both blue) a red and a above u always a and b both red always a blue If abu forming an edge does not depend ... pair of vertices is a pair of distinct vertices a and b such that for all vertices c and d distinct from a and b, the vertices acd form an edge exactly if bcd Equivalently, the vertex map swapping ... a column foot The terminology of the last paragraph may seem peculiar It is chosen to be descriptive in that a leg contains a foot, and both are a set of vertices at the bottom of a column, as...
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