epub |eng | 2013-03-26 | Author:Mark Denny

It’s a Gas Across the globe, we currently consume about 31 billion barrels of oil each year. Given the estimated reserves of unconventional oil, the Athabasca tar sands can supply ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Rudolph Herzog [Herzog, Rudolph]

CHAPTER SEVEN Flying Reactors There are places where radioactive substances have no business being. One of them is space. That may sound like science fiction, but it is, in fact, ...

epub |eng | 2012-03-25 | Author:Eric Smith

epub |eng | | Author:Vaclav Smil [Smil, Vaclav]

Figure 19 James Watt’s steam engine (left) and detail of separate condenser (right) The typical power of Watt’s engines was about twenty-five horsepower (about 20 kW); the largest engines, built ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Paul Scheckel

Windswept trees. If you’re driving down the road and see trees that look like they’ve had a bad haircut, it could indicate a good site for wind energy. Wind Monitoring ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-10-30 | Author:Charles Seife

The lure of cold fusion and the promise of unlimited, free energy is, itself, a source of power to be reckoned with. Patent examiner Thomas Valone has been under its ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-12-04 | Author:Rik DeGunther

You also need wiring, a solar collector, piping, and a PV module. A 12VDC panel should be strong enough to power your pump. Making Your Own Collector This project has ...

mobi |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:Carl Safina

By the start of the third week of June, one-third of the Gulf’s federal waters, 81,000 square miles, remain closed to fishing. And the Economist estimates that BP is on ...

mobi |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Alexis Madrigal

The solar transcendentalists drew from a wide range of sources for their philosophies. There were the deep American antitechnological roots of Thoreau and there were the popular philosophers of the ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-09-16 | Author:Ian Woofenden

Looking at a solar-electric system's longevity, reliability, and simplicity Photovoltaic (PV) modules are remarkable devices. I challenge you to find another consumer product with a 25-year warranty. If your PV ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-19 | Author:Yergin, Daniel [Yergin, Daniel]

ARRHENIUS: THE GREAT BENEFIT OF A WARMING CLIMATE The year after Tyndall’s death, in 1894, a Swedish chemist named Svante Arrhenius picked up the story. Arrhenius was curious as to ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-09-22 | Author:Peter Maass

Big Oil is getting the reward it deserves: after more than a century of power and indecency, it is shrinking. Until the 1970s, Western companies controlled most of the world’s ...

epub |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:James Mahaffey

134 The USS S-48, built in 1921, was possibly the only submarine to find peril in a heavy snowstorm. She was returning home to Portsmouth, Connecticut, on the night of ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Vaclav Smil [SMIL, VACLAV]

6 Liquid Fuels from Plants There is nothing new about liquid biofuels for transportation.1 Henry Ford, for example, was a great promoter of ethanol, and his famous Model T could ...