Power Switch

Author : G. Bruce Doern,Monica Gattinger
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0802085369

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Power Switch by G. Bruce Doern,Monica Gattinger Pdf

In the energy sector of Canadian economic and political life, power has a double meaning. It is quintessentially about the generation of power and physical energy. However, it is also about political power, the energy of the economy, and thus the overall governance of Canada. Power Switch offers a critical examination of the changing nature of energy regulatory governance, with a particular focus on Canada in the larger contexts of the George W. Bush administration's aggressive energy policies and within North American energy markets. Focusing on the key institutions and complex regimes of regulation, Bruce Doern and Monica Gattinger look at specific regulatory bodies such as the National Energy Board, the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board, and the Ontario Energy Board. They also examine the complex systems of rule making that develop as traditional energy regulation interacts and often collides with environmental and climate change regulation, such as the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Power Switch is one of the first accounts in many years of Canada's overall energy regulatory system.

Author : Paul O'Brien
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789047509

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Power Switch by Paul O'Brien Pdf

Is it actually possible? …that we might emerge from this pandemic with a peaceful global power switch from those who have too much to those who don't have enough? With billionaires able to decide the fate of nations, private corporations more powerful and less accountable than ever, and political autocrats around the world shaking our confidence in democratic institutions, power resides in all the wrong places. And so our world is in crisis. In such moments, activists find opportunities. Not to restore the pre-crises order, but to transform it. Paul O’Brien argues that progressive activists may never have a better opportunity to rewrite economic rules, systems and outcomes in favor of those who don't have enough. His book offers practical action steps for activists who want to drive a power switch that overcomes extreme inequalities in our world.

Author : Peter Kelly-Detwiler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781633886674

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The Energy Switch by Peter Kelly-Detwiler Pdf

The energy industry is changing, and it’s far more than just solar panels. Electric vehicles look to overtake gasoline-powered cars within our lifetimes, wind farms are popping up in unlikely places, traders are transforming energy into a commodity, and supercomputers are crunching vast amounts of data in nanoseconds while helping to keep our energy grids secure from hackers. The way humans produce, distribute and consume power will be cleaner, cheaper, and infinitely more complex within the next decade. In The Energy Switch, leading energy industry expert Peter Kelly-Detwiler looks at all aspects of the transformation: how we got here, where we are going, and the implications for all of us in our daily lives. Kelly-Detwiler takes readers to the frontlines of the energy revolution. Meet Steve Collins, an executive from Commercial Development Corporation, the company that blew up two $570-million-dollar concrete cooling towers to create a staging ground for the new $70 billion U.S. offshore wind industry; Rob Threlkeld, a General Motors executive who convinced the auto giant to sign multiple 20-year renewable energy contracts worth hundreds of millions; Kevin McAlpin, a Texas homeowner who buys the power for his home on the electricity spot market – where prices can soar from less than one cent a kilowatthour to $9.00 over the course of a single day; Dr. Kristin Persson, who oversees a supercomputer that can process data at 30 quadrillion calculations per second, in the quest for better renewable energy and battery technologies; and John Davis, a Texas rancher who can keep his land intact, with help from the royalty payments from seven turbines spinning on his range. Energy creation and distribution has driven society’s progress for centuries. Today, people are increasingly aware that it is imperative that humans move towards a cleaner, digitized, and democratized energy economy. The Energy Switch is about that multi-trillion dollar transformation, told from the perspective of those leading us to that bright future.

Author : Keng C. Wu
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780080459561

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Switch-Mode Power Converters by Keng C. Wu Pdf

Switch-Mode Power Converters introduces an innovative, highly analytical approach to symbolic, closed-form solutions for switched-mode power converter circuits. This is a highly relevant topic to power electronics students and professionals who are involved in the design and analysis of electrical power converters. The author uses extensive equations to explain how solid-state switches convert electrical voltages from one level to another, so that electronic devices (e.g., audio speakers, CD players, DVD players, etc.) can use different voltages more effectively to perform their various functions. Most existing comparable books published as recently as 2002 do not discuss closed-loop operations, nor do they provide either DC closed-loop regulation equations or AC loop gain (stability) formulae. The author Wu, a leading engineer at Lockheed Martin, fills this gap and provides among the first descriptions of how error amplifiers are designed in conjunction with closed-loop bandwidth selection. BENEFIT TO THE READER: Readers will gain a mathematically rigorous introduction to numerous, closed-form solutions that are readily applicable to the design and development of various switch-mode power converters. Provides symbolic, closed-form solutions for DC and AC studies Provides techniques for expressing close-loop operation Gives readers the ability to perform closed-loop regulation and sensitivity studies Gives readers the ability to design error amplifiers with precision Employs the concept of the continuity of states in matrix form Gives accelerated time-domain, steady-state studies using Laplace transform Gives accelerated time-domain studies using state transition Extensive use of matrix, linear algebra, implicit functions, and Jacobian determinants Enables the determination of power stage gain that otherwise could not be obtained

Author : Rachel Plotnick
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262551953

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Power Button by Rachel Plotnick Pdf

Push a button and turn on the television; tap a button and get a ride; click a button and “like” something. The touch of a finger can set an appliance, a car, or a system in motion, even if the user doesn't understand the underlying mechanisms or algorithms. How did buttons become so ubiquitous? Why do people love them, loathe them, and fear them? In Power Button, Rachel Plotnick traces the origins of today's push-button society by examining how buttons have been made, distributed, used, rejected, and refashioned throughout history. Focusing on the period between 1880 and 1925, when “technologies of the hand” proliferated (including typewriters, telegraphs, and fingerprinting), Plotnick describes the ways that button pushing became a means for digital command, which promised effortless, discreet, and fool-proof control. Emphasizing the doubly digital nature of button pushing—as an act of the finger and a binary activity (on/off, up/down)—Plotnick suggests that the tenets of precomputational digital command anticipate contemporary ideas of computer users. Plotnick discusses the uses of early push buttons to call servants, and the growing tensions between those who work with their hands and those who command with their fingers; automation as “automagic,” enabling command at a distance; instant gratification, and the victory of light over darkness; and early twentieth-century imaginings of a future push-button culture. Push buttons, Plotnick tells us, have demonstrated remarkable staying power, despite efforts to cast button pushers as lazy, privileged, and even dangerous.

Author : E. Ramshaw
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781475762198

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Power Electronics Semiconductor Switches by E. Ramshaw Pdf

Power Electronic Semiconductor Switches is the successor to Professor Ramshaw's widely-used Power Electronics. The text has been completely re-written and expanded to focus on semiconductor switches, and to take into account advances in the field since the publication of Power Electronics and changes in electrical and electronic engineering syllabuses.

Author : Max S. Petersen,Frank E. Cash
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Ground control (Mining)
ISBN : UOM:39015078515445

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Electric Blasting Switches, Underground Mines, Lake Superior District by Max S. Petersen,Frank E. Cash Pdf

Author : Craig Morris
Publisher : Gabriola, B.C. : New Society Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biomass energy
ISBN : UOM:39015064877395

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Energy Switch by Craig Morris Pdf

How North America can learn from renewable energy success stories in Europe

Author : Timothy L. Skvarenina
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781420037067

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The Power Electronics Handbook by Timothy L. Skvarenina Pdf

Less expensive, lighter, and smaller than its electromechanical counterparts, power electronics lie at the very heart of controlling and converting electric energy, which in turn lies at the heart of making that energy useful. From household appliances to space-faring vehicles, the applications of power electronics are virtually limitless. Until now, however, the same could not be said for access to up-to-date reference books devoted to power electronics. Written by engineers for engineers, The Power Electronics Handbook covers the full range of relevant topics, from basic principles to cutting-edge applications. Compiled from contributions by an international panel of experts and full of illustrations, this is not a theoretical tome, but a practical and enlightening presentation of the usefulness and variety of technologies that encompass the field. For modern and emerging applications, power electronic devices and systems must be small, efficient, lightweight, controllable, reliable, and economical. The Power Electronics Handbook is your key to understanding those devices, incorporating them into controllable circuits, and implementing those systems into applications from virtually every area of electrical engineering.

Author : Dr. Mohamed Said Khorsheed
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781524567361

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Practical Engineering Application in Electrical Engineering Studies by Dr. Mohamed Said Khorsheed Pdf

The book referred to those addressed standards where applicable and insisted on the application of those standards and regulations that the engineer should be aware of and get used to in his effort to design and engineer projects to meet all their requirements, which will insure human safety requirement including the safety of environment that we live in. In the following pages of this book, we shall talk in a comprehensive but not very detailed manner about the application of disciplines of the engineering profession in general and the application of electrical engineering in more detail. However, the specialized engineer must have the required academic background that he prepared himself during his academic study. Such study shall include but is not limited to the study of mathematics, physics, chemistry, graphics, engineering economics, and the ability to master the language of those courses.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Armored vehicles, Military
ISBN : SRLF:D0001604784

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Armor by Anonim Pdf

The magazine of mobile warfare.

Author : Kennedy Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798644268412

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Power Switch by Kennedy Mitchell Pdf

"This book, this series is a page-turner. It's exciting, suspenseful and enthralling." - It_sgottabethebooksLies. Deceit. Espionage. And that's just the tip of the iceberg here in DC. My boyfriend is fake engaged, I'm pretty sure someone out there is trying to kill me, and now a sexy-as-sin attorney from the Justice Department is investigating me and I have zero clue as to why. Torn between duty and love, I'm not just floundering in my role as VP, I'm drowning.When the pieces of the president's plan come to light, I know I have to stop him. Permanently this time. How I'll get out of this alive, I have no idea, but at least I still have my favorite secret service agent, Trey Benson, by my side--for now. I'll do whatever it takes to remove Kyle from office, even if it means sacrificing everything I love. Again. Power Switch is the third book in the five-book Power Play series and is a continuation of Randi and Trey's epic love story. The books in this series cannot be read as standalones. All five books follow one main couple's relationship as it grows through a five-year time period. It's suspenseful, steamy, and oh so unputdownable. If you're a fan of Tiffany Snow, Meghan March, and Skye Warren, then this series is for YOU!

Author : John G. Miller
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781101221259

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Flipping the Switch... by John G. Miller Pdf

In his bestselling book QBQ! The Question Behind the Question, John G. Miller revealed how personal accountability helps to create opportunity, overcome obstacles, and achieve goals by eliminating blame, complaining, and procrastination. The result? Stronger organizations, more dynamic teams, and healthier relationships. Now Miller takes readers to the next level to show how they can use the power of the QBQ! and personal accountability every day. When a light switch is flipped the flow of energy that is released reaches the lightbulb in an instant, bringing it to life. Similarly, asking the right kind of question-a QBQ-is the first step to empowering what Miller calls the Advantage Principles-five essential practices that will lead to a richer experience in every aspect of life: - LEARNING: live an engaged and energized life through positive personal growth and change - OWNERSHIP: attain goals by becoming a solution-oriented person who solves problems - CREATIVITY: find new ways to achieve by succeeding "within the box" - SERVICE: build a legacy by helping others succeed - TRUST: develop deep and rewarding relationships With compelling real-life stories and keen insights, Miller demonstrates how anyone can find success and satisfaction by "flipping the switch."

Author : Christen Carter,Ted Hake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1616898704

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Button Power by Christen Carter,Ted Hake Pdf

"A collection of more than 2,000 colorful and artistic pin-back buttons, forming a people's history of American culture and politics that focuses on a range of subjects: advertising, arts and entertainment, historical events, movements and causes, humor, nature, celebrated personalities and organizations, geographical features, sports, transportation, wars and anti-war movements"--

Author : Saul Griffith
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781743822371

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The Big Switch by Saul Griffith Pdf

An inspiring, practical plan to transform Australia’s energy system and supercharge our response to the climate crisis Climate change is a planetary emergency. We have to do something now – but what? Australian visionary Saul Griffith has a plan. In The Big Switch, Griffith lays out a detailed blueprint – optimistic but feasible – for fighting climate change while creating millions of new jobs and a healthier environment. Griffith explains exactly what it would take to transform our infrastructure, update our grid, and adapt our households. Billionaires may contemplate escaping our worn-out planet on a private rocket ship to Mars, but the rest of us, Griffith says, will stay and fight for the future. ‘I’m a scientist, inventor and father who wants to leave my kids a better world. The data convinces me that it is still rational to have hope.’ —Saul Griffith 'About f*cking time we have an actual plan written down that can be executed and financed. In a decarbonised world, Australia is a winner. The opportunity now is ours for the taking.' -Mike Cannon-Brookes 'Griffth argues that electrification is the path forward to mitigate climate change while creating jobs.' -Rose Mary Petrass, The Fifth Estate '...an engaging, optimistic, and persuasive perspective on the huge opportunities in front of us.' -Benjamin Powell, Westender Community News