Essays on Energy

This book: Overshoot - The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change by William R. Catton, Jr Tries to explore the way experience teaches us that our tremendous demand for natural resources, energy, as well as the consumer items must have limits. This book contributes significantly in the ecological appreciation translation into terms...

Stefan Bouzarovski and Harriet Thomson's "Energy Vulnerability in the Grain of the City: Toward Neighborhood Typologies of Material Deprivation" This article's main topic is energy poverty, which is defined as the inability to obtain a certain level of energy services in one's home. The study of fuel poverty has sparked interest...

Self- Driving Cars Could Help To Save Environment -Or Ruin It. Depends on Us Self-Driving Cars Could Help To Save Environment -Or Ruin It. Depends on Us is an article written via New-York based environmental journalist Justin Worland for Times magazine. The article explores the potential benefits and shortcomings of self-driving...

When it comes to nuclear manufacturing in South Australia, several concerns have been raised. While the leaders of South Australia favor the idea, expressing their views on how this participation is an excellent opportunity for the state, their position on indigenous peoples' rights in the areas where nuclear power plants...

Buildings have each direct and indirect impacts on the environment.During the construction and service life of a shape raw materials, water, and energy are used. The constructions also generate wastes. A combination of these elements has prompted the development of exclusive green building requirements which aims to promote environmental sustainability. Examples...

During the tour to the Frick Environmental Center in Pittsburgh I realized that there is a wide variety of environmental sustainable strategies that can be adopted by man. However, a noteworthy sustainable strategy was the Solar Energy PV Array at Parking Canopy. This sustainable strategy entails masking up the parking lot with...

The Energy Innovation Centre and its Storage Strategies The energy innovation Centre has one of the most successful storage stories. This non-profit organization has efficiently utilized the energy storage technologies that have made it manipulate the flows and ebbs in demand for power among the consumers. The company understands that people...

The article is about goodwill impairments in the energy sector. The energy sector mixed losses that fell to $7.2 billion in 2016, from $18.2 billion recorded from the previous year. Following the decline in the energy quarter as stated in previous years the essay beneath seeks to discuss various measures...

Introduction At present, the invention of the ultra-capacitors has raised a great deal of interest as well as uncertainty in the electrical industry. Various makers of adjustable-speed drives, uninterrupted power supplies, and fuel cells are shown to be quite focused as it comes to the usage of the inherent advantages of...

Data Table 2. First, Metal. Objects Mass (g) Tinitial Tfinal DT C (cal/g °C) Water in calorimeter 25 23 28 5 1.0000 First metal 17.3 98 28 -70 0.1032 Data Table 3. Second, Metal. Objects Mass (g) Tinitial Tfinal DT C (cal/g °C) Water in calorimeter 25 22 23 1 1.0000 Second metal 12.9 98 23 -75 0.0258 Analysis The quantity of heat energy wasted by the metal is equal to the heat obtained by the calorimeter and water, plus heat lost to the atmosphere. Lost or won heat is: Q =...

Tesla, Inc., formerly known as Tesla Motors, Inc., was founded on July 1, 2003. The company designs products and sells fully electric motor vehicles and other energy storage devices, as well as installing, running, and maintaining other solar-powered storage devices. Currently, the firm operates in two main market segments: electricity...

Administration (EIA) (2015) The United States (U.S.) has been a big fossil fuel consumer with a reported 80 percent of the country's fossil fuel mix since 1900. The predominance of fossil fuels in America The most commonly used fossil fuel goods in the U.S. are gasoline, coal, and natural gas that has been...