Energy Metropolis

Author : Martin V. Melosi,Joseph A. Pratt
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822973249

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Energy Metropolis by Martin V. Melosi,Joseph A. Pratt Pdf

A comprehensive history of the development of Houston, examining the factors that have facilitated unprecedented growth--and the environmental cost of that development. Examines the steps Houston has taken to overcome laissez-faire politics, indiscriminate expansion, and infrastructural overload. An analysis of the environmental consequences of large-scale energy production and unchecked growth.

Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 906 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Nuclear energy
ISBN : CHI:28283638

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Hearings and Reports on Atomic Energy by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy Pdf

Author : Jeffrey B. Webb,Christopher R. Fee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1015 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781440872150

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Energy in American History by Jeffrey B. Webb,Christopher R. Fee Pdf

Contextualizes and analyzes the key energy transitions in U.S. history and the central importance of energy production and consumption on the American environment and in American culture and politics. Focusing on the major energy transitions in U.S. history, from the pre-industrial era to the present day, this two-volume encyclopedia captures the major advancements, events, technologies, and people synonymous with the production and consumption of energy in the United States. Expert contributors show how, for example, the introduction of electricity and petroleum into ordinary American life facilitated periods of rapid social and political change, as well as profound and ongoing impacts on the environment. These developments have in many ways defined and accelerated the pace of modern life and led to vast improvements in living conditions for millions of people, just as they have also brought new fears of resource exhaustion and fossil-fuel induced climate change. Today, as America begins to move beyond the use of fossil fuels toward a greater reliance on renewables, including wind and solar energy, there is a pressing need to understand energy in America's past in order to better understand its energy future.

Author : Louis Boisgibault,Fahad Al Kabbani
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781786304995

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Energy Transition in Metropolises, Rural Areas, and Deserts by Louis Boisgibault,Fahad Al Kabbani Pdf

Energy Transition in Metropolises, Rural Areas and Deserts presents detailed field studies of energy transition in Lille, Riyadh, Fayence, Bokhol, Ouarzazate and the Arabian Desert. It analyzes local actions and good practices – according to the resources and constraints involved – in the process of removing the obstacles to the transition. Solutions are sought for the right type of space for buildings, transport, industry and services, and targets are set for Europe, the Middle East and Africa as part of the Paris Climate Agreement. As a pedagogical tool, this book is aimed at not only politicians and professionals, but also any members of the public who wish to learn about changes in production and energy consumption.

Author : David Owen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101140314

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Green Metropolis by David Owen Pdf

Look out for David Owen's next book, Where the Water Goes. A challenging, controversial, and highly readable look at our lives, our world, and our future. Most Americans think of crowded cities as ecological nightmares, as wastelands of concrete and garbage and diesel fumes and traffic jams. Yet residents of compact urban centers, Owen shows, individually consume less oil, electricity, and water than other Americans. They live in smaller spaces, discard less trash, and, most important of all, spend far less time in automobiles. Residents of Manhattan—the most densely populated place in North America—rank first in public-transit use and last in percapita greenhouse-gas production, and they consume gasoline at a rate that the country as a whole hasn’t matched since the mid-1920s, when the most widely owned car in the United States was the Ford Model T. They are also among the only people in the United States for whom walking is still an important means of daily transportation. These achievements are not accidents. Spreading people thinly across the countryside may make them feel green, but it doesn’t reduce the damage they do to the environment. In fact, it increases the damage, while also making the problems they cause harder to see and to address. Owen contends that the environmental problem we face, at the current stage of our assault on the world’s nonrenewable resources, is not how to make teeming cities more like the pristine countryside. The problem is how to make other settled places more like Manhattan, whose residents presently come closer than any other Americans to meeting environmental goals that all of us, eventually, will have to come to terms with.

Author : John Tutino,Martin V. Melosi
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469648767

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New World Cities by John Tutino,Martin V. Melosi Pdf

For millennia, urban centers were pivots of power and trade that ruled and linked rural majorities. After 1950, explosive urbanization led to unprecedented urban majorities around the world. That transformation--inextricably tied to rising globalization--changed almost everything for nearly everybody: production, politics, and daily lives. In this book, seven eminent scholars look at the similar but nevertheless divergent courses taken by Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Montreal, Los Angeles, and Houston in the twentieth century, attending to the challenges of rapid growth, the gains and limits of popular politics, and the profound local effects of a swiftly modernizing, globalizing economy. By exploring the rise of these six cities across five nations, New World Cities investigates the complexities of power and prosperity, difficulty and desperation, while reckoning with the social, cultural, and ethnic dynamics that mark all metropolitan areas. Contributors: Michele Dagenais, Mark Healey, Martin V. Melosi, Bryan McCann, Joseph A. Pratt, George J. Sanchez, and John Tutino.

Author : Stefan Bouzarovski,Martin J Pasqualetti,Vanesa Castán Broto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317043560

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The Routledge Research Companion to Energy Geographies by Stefan Bouzarovski,Martin J Pasqualetti,Vanesa Castán Broto Pdf

Energy has become a central concern of many strands of geographical inquiry, from global climate change to the effects of energy decisions on our lives. However, many aspects of the ‘black box’ of relationships at the energy-society interface remain unopened, especially in terms of the spatial underpinnings of energy production and consumption within nations, cities and regions. Debates focusing on the location and nature of energy flows frequently fail to consider the multiple geographical networks that illustrate and explain the distribution of fuels and services around the world. Providing an integrated perspective on the complex interdependencies between energy and geography, The Routledge Research Companion to Energy Geographies offers a timely conceptual framework to study the multiple facets of energy geography, including security, space and place, planning, environmental science, economics and political science. Illustrating how a geographic approach towards energy can aid decision-making pathways in the domains of social justice and environment, this book provides insights that will help move the international community toward greater cooperation, stability, and sustainability.

Author : Sun-Chong Wang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781461503774

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Interdisciplinary Computing in Java Programming by Sun-Chong Wang Pdf

Books on computation in the marketplace tend to discuss the topics within specific fields. Many computational algorithms, however, share common roots. Great advantages emerge if numerical methodologies break the boundaries and find their uses across disciplines. Interdisciplinary Computing In Java Programming Language introduces readers of different backgrounds to the beauty of the selected algorithms. Serious quantitative researchers, writing customized codes for computation, enjoy cracking source codes as opposed to the black-box approach. Most C and Fortran programs, despite being slightly faster in program execution, lack built-in support for plotting and graphical user interface. This book selects Java as the platform where source codes are developed and applications are run, helping readers/users best appreciate the fun of computation. Interdisciplinary Computing In Java Programming Language is designed to meet the needs of a professional audience composed of practitioners and researchers in science and technology. This book is also suitable for senior undergraduate and graduate-level students in computer science, as a secondary text.

Author : Panos M. Pardalos,David Shalloway,Guoliang Xue
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 0821870696

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Global Minimization of Nonconvex Energy Functions by Panos M. Pardalos,David Shalloway,Guoliang Xue Pdf

This book contains refereed papers presented at a remarkable interdisciplinary scientific meeting attended by a mix of leading biochemists and computer scientists held at DIMACS in March 1995. It describes the development of a variety og new methods which are being developed for attacking the important problem of molecular structure.

Author : David J. Wales
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780323852852

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Energy Landscapes of Nanoscale Systems by David J. Wales Pdf

Energy Landscapes of Nanoscale Systems provides a snapshot of the state-of-the-art in energy landscapes theory and applications. The book's chapters reflect diversity and knowledge transfer that is a key strength of the energy landscape approach. To reflect the breadth of this field, contributions include applications for clusters, biomolecules, crystal structure prediction and glassy materials. Chapters highlighting new methodologies, especially enhanced sampling techniques are included. In particular, the development and application of global optimization for structure prediction, methods for treating broken ergodicity on multifunnel landscapes, and treatment of rare event dynamics that reflect the state-of-the-art are featured. This book is an important reference source for materials scientists and energy engineers who want to understand more about how nanotechnology applies to the energy landscape approach. This volume is dedicated to Prof. Roy L. Johnston, who was formerly Co-Editor of the Frontiers of Nanoscience series, and who passed away in 2019. Outlines applications and advances in theory and simulation of energy systems at the nanoscale Explores how the energy landscapes approach is being applied to nanoscale materials Assesses major challenges in applying nanomaterials for energy applications on an industrial scale

Author : Nicholas M. Patrikalakis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9784431681595

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Scientific Visualization of Physical Phenomena by Nicholas M. Patrikalakis Pdf

Scientific Visualization of Physical Phenomena reflects the special emphasis of the Computer Graphics Society's Ninth International Conference, held at the MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA in June, 1991. This volume contains the proceedings of the conference, which, since its foundation in 1983, continues to attract high quality research articles in all aspects of Computer Graphics and its applications. Visualization in science and engineering is rapidly developing into a vital area because of its potential for significantly contributing to the understanding of physical processes and the design automation of man-made systems. With the increasing emphasis in handling complicated physical and artificial processes and systems and with continuing advances in specialized graphics hardware and processing software and algorithms, visualization is expected to play an increasingly dominant role in the foreseeable future.

Author : Hassan Ugail
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780857297846

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Partial Differential Equations for Geometric Design by Hassan Ugail Pdf

The subject of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) which first emerged in the 18th century holds an exciting and special position in the applications relating to the mathematical modelling of physical phenomena. The subject of PDEs has been developed by major names in Applied Mathematics such as Euler, Legendre, Laplace and Fourier and has applications to each and every physical phenomenon known to us e.g. fluid flow, elasticity, electricity and magnetism, weather forecasting and financial modelling. This book introduces the recent developments of PDEs in the field of Geometric Design particularly for computer based design and analysis involving the geometry of physical objects. Starting from the basic theory through to the discussion of practical applications the book describes how PDEs can be used in the area of Computer Aided Design and Simulation Based Design. Extensive examples with real life applications of PDEs in the area of Geometric Design are discussed in the book.

Author : Steve Brooks,Andrew Gelman,Galin Jones,Xiao-Li Meng
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781420079425

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Handbook of Markov Chain Monte Carlo by Steve Brooks,Andrew Gelman,Galin Jones,Xiao-Li Meng Pdf

Since their popularization in the 1990s, Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods have revolutionized statistical computing and have had an especially profound impact on the practice of Bayesian statistics. Furthermore, MCMC methods have enabled the development and use of intricate models in an astonishing array of disciplines as diverse as fisherie

Author : United States. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1782 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Energy conservation
ISBN : NWU:35559001985344

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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Reports by United States. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Pdf

Author : Jay Wang
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119239888

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Computational Modeling and Visualization of Physical Systems with Python by Jay Wang Pdf

Computational Modeling, by Jay Wang introduces computational modeling and visualization of physical systems that are commonly found in physics and related areas. The authors begin with a framework that integrates model building, algorithm development, and data visualization for problem solving via scientific computing. Through carefully selected problems, methods, and projects, the reader is guided to learning and discovery by actively doing rather than just knowing physics.