Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Falcon Field Facilities Expansion, Mesa
Author: Wind Energy
Author: David E. NewtonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
While covering the fascinating history of wind power as a whole, this timely handbook focuses on current technological developments and the promise—and pitfalls—of wind energy as part of the world's energy future. The use of wind power for the generation of electricity holds vast potential for solving the world's energy problems, but numerous technical and social issues must be addressed before that potential can be realized. This handbook will both educate students about current issues related to wind energy and introduce the ways in which mankind has harnessed the wind through the ages. The book covers topics as diverse as early windmills in Europe, the United States, China, and the Middle East; the development of wind farms for electricity generation; and political factors involved in the development of wind energy today. Conventional wind turbine mechanics are explained, as are the technical improvements that drive modern wind turbines and other wind systems. What makes the handbook unique is that it combines hard science with perspective pieces that address topics such as potential environmental damage that can result from modern wind technology, and how recent developments in wind turbine technology hold the promise for considerably reducing the cost of this alternate energy source, making it competitive with conventional fossil fuels. Readers will be engaged by extensive discussion of the economic, political, and ethical issues raised by the expanding use of wind energy in the United States and elsewhere, and they will be intrigued by a look at what wind power can mean to the planet's energy future.
Gustine Airport Development Project, Environmental Impact Assessment Report
Author: 2021 International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics (MWP)
Author: IEEE StaffPublisher:
ISBN: 9781665426114
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics is the premier international meeting on microwave photonic devices, systems, and applications The broadband, low loss transmission capability of optical fiber links has led to much interest in their use in the distribution and control of microwave and millimeter wave signals Application areas include antenna remoting for wireless data and cellular radio systems, optically controlled phased array antennas, optical processing of microwave signals and broadband cable television distribution Photonics enables new microwave system functions such as long delays lines, fast spectrum analysis, frequency conversion, probing and control of microwave devices, low phase noise oscillators, and ultra fast analog to digital converters Conversely, microwave techniques are enabling new generations of optical communication systems with capabilities exceeding 1 Tb s fiber
Cries Unheard
Author: Gitta SerenyPublisher: Picador
ISBN: 9780805060683
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
England's controversial #1 best-seller. What brings a child to kill another child? In 1968, at age eleven, Mary Bell was tried and convicted of murdering two small boys in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Gitta Sereny, who covered the sensational trial, never believed the characterization of Bell as the incarnation of evil, the bad seed personified. If we are ever to understand the pressures that lead children to commit serious crimes, Sereny felt, only those children, as adults, can enlighten us. Twenty-seven years after her conviction, Mary Bell agreed to talk to Sereny about her harrowing childhood, her terrible acts, her public trial, and her years of imprisonment-to talk about what was done to her and what she did, who she was and who she became. Nothing Bell says is intended as an excuse for her crimes. But her devastating story forces us to ponder society's responsibility for children at the breaking point, whether in Newcastle, Arkansas, or Oregon. A masterpiece of wisdom and sympathy, Gitta Sereny's wrenching portrait of a girl's damaged childhood and a woman's fight for moral regeneration urgently calls on us to hear the cries of all children at risk.
The Invisible Children
Author: Gitta SerenyPublisher: Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The invisible world of child prostitution in America, England, and West Germany is fully explored here for the first time. Gitta Sereny's profoundly disturbing book is the result of two years of intensive interviews and research during which she met with, spoke with, and got to know child prostitutes here and abroad as well as their parents, their pimps, their lovers, and the teachers, psychologists, and police who are struggling to help. Writing with a strong commitment to the lives of these children, she gives us in detail the stories of ten girls and two boys. All of them are runaways for whom it was (actually or emotionally) impossible to return to home and family--and for whom the only alternative seemed to be to join "the life" of prostitution. Interwoven with the author's narrative and observations are the voices of the children themselves, who speak with feeling and candor about the homes they fled, and about the life they live now on the street. They discuss their pimps. their "tricks," the ways they were "initiated" into prostitution. They express their feelings about sex and about the future they see for themselves. Sereny makes us understand the horrifying reality of what is happening to children like these by the thousands, why it is happening, and why, walking the city streets, they have nevertheless remained invisible.--From publisher description.
Environmental Assessment of Airport Development Actions
Author: Greiner Environmental Sciences, incPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Airports
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
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