Screen LibraryMacro-engineering and the earth : world projects for the year 2000 and beyond ; a festschrift in honour of Frank Davidson /
This work delivers ideas, comments and projects on energy, communications, transport, management, human resources, and financial and legal issues which macroengineering can contribute towards the solution of the Earth's environmental problems. Some 20 engineers and scholars identify problems in...
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Horwood,
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| Publisher Address: | Chichester : |
| Publication Dates: | 1998. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Horwood series in engineering science
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9781898563594 |
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This work delivers ideas, comments and projects on energy, communications, transport, management, human resources, and financial and legal issues which macroengineering can contribute towards the solution of the Earth's environmental problems. Some 20 engineers and scholars identify problems in the next century whose solutions call for international policy planning and a more collaborative, peaceful and prosperous world order. Imaginative concepts employ forward thinking for applying technology in revolutionary projects. The book presents results of research on a triple helical turbine capable of extracting vast amounts of energy from slow-moving water, an invention which could harness rivers and ocean currents, rendering high dams (with their political, social and ecological implications) redundant. These turbines are already in mass production in the USA for use in the Gulf Stream to produce energy and hydrogen fuel, and can also be used to harness power from the wind. Another project, for which the technology is already available, will harvest solar energy by satellites stationed beyond our atmosphere and beam it to the Earth; and yet another calls for planetary defence of Earth against asteroid collisions. The environmental section discusses large projects for changing our climate, planning and costing for a sub-Mediterranean aqueduct connecting the River Rhone in France with Algeria, and plans for intensive fish farming of the oceans. The role of satellites includes telemedicine, and there are Swiss plans for further tunnelling through the Alps. Project management sections include the formation of a military-civilian conservation corps, financial and legal issues, macro-projects in China, and a forecast of 21st century macro-problems. Delivers ideas, comments and projects on energy, communications, transport, management, human resources, and financial and legal issues which macroengineering can contribute to the solution of the Earth's environmental problemsIdentifies problems in the next century whose solutions call for international policy planning and a more collaborative, peaceful and prosperous world orderPresents research on a triple helical turbine capable of extracting vast amounts of energy from slow-moving water. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xxi, 260 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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9781782420583 1782420584 |
| Index Number: | TA170 |
| CLC: | X5 |
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Front Cover; Macro-Engineering and the Earth: World Projects for the Year 2000 and Beyond: A Festchrift in Honour of Frank Davidson; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PROLEGOMENA; Tribute to Frank Davidson; Tribute to Frank Davidson; Preface -- 1; Preface -- 2; Introduction; SECTION 1: ENERGY; Chapter 1. Turbines With a Twist; INTRODUCTION; THE POWER OF OCEAN STREAMS AND OTHER ULTRA LOW-HEAD HYDRO SOURCES; HELICAL TURBINE; OCEAN POWER FARMS; MINI POWER STATIONS; APPLICATIONS FOR OCEAN WAVES; HELICAL TURBINES FOR WATER PUMPING; WIND FARMS WITH HELICAL TURBINES. MATHEMATICAL MODEL FOR DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF THE HELICAL HYDRAULIC TURBINECOMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE OF HELICAL VERSUS DARRIEUS TURBINES; NOTES; Chapter 2. Power from Space; INTRODUCTION; RATIONALE FOR POWER FROM SPACE; THE SPS OPTIONS; ASSESSMENT OF TECHNICAL, ECONOMIC, AND SOCIETAL ISSUES; CONCLUSION; NOTES; Chapter 3. Regional Electricity Development; INTRODUCTION; NEW ENGLAND ELECTRIC SECTOR CO2 REDUCTIONS; TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES TO REDUCING CO2 EMISSIONS; INSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGES TO REDUCING CO2 EMISSIONS; PARTING SHOTS: SLOW AND STEADY WINS THE RACE; NOTES; SECTION 2: ENVIRONMENT. Chapter 4. Saving the Earth -- The Whole EarthChapter 5. Large Climate-Changing Projects; THREE LARGE CLIMATE-CHANGING PROPOSALS OF THE PAST; PROPOSAL 2: A SOVIET CLIMAGE-CHANGING PROJECT: DAMMING THE BERING STRAIT; PROPOSAL 3: A SUGGESTION FROM JAPAN: DAMMING THE DRAKE PASSAGE; THE ""DREAMS OF ENGINEERS"": THEIR IMPORTANCE; THREE REVOLUTIONS AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE CENTRAL PHYSICAL PROBLEM OF OUR TIME?; THE SECOND REVOLUTION: GETTING TO KNOW AND TO LOVE MOTHER EARTH; THE THIRD REVOLUTION: THE REVOLUTION OF NATURE'S RESPONSE. THE CENTRAL PHYSICAL PROBLEM OF THE 21st CENTURY? GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGETHE URGENT QUESTION: HOW CAN THE MACRO-ENGINEERING COMMUNITY RESPOND TO GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE?; NOTES; Chapter 6. Building Faster to Conserve More: A Sustainable Global City; DEFINING THE DILEMMA; A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; THE KNOWLEDGE WORKER; SEIZING THE OPPORTUNITY; CONCLUSION; Chapter 7. A New Urban Model; THE CURRENT URBAN DILEMMA; SURVEY OF SOLUTIONS; A NEW URBAN MODEL: PLANNING AND DESIGN CONCEPTS; SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS AND OFFSHORE DESIGNS. Chapter 8. World Water Supply IssuesChapter 9. A Rhone-Algeria Aqueduct; RIVER CONDITION AND WATER TAKEOFF; THE AQUEDUCT; MATERIAL QUANTITIES AND COSTS OF AQUEDUCT PIPE; INLET TAKE OFF; PUMPS, EDUCTORS AND FLOW GENERATORS; SYSTEM COSTS; COMPARATIVE COSTS OF DISTILLING WATER DIRECTLE FROM THE SEA; SUMMARY; SUMMARIZING QUESTIONS; APPENDIX; DESCRIPTION OF A SYSTEM AND ITS OPERATION; DESCRIPTION OF THE AQUEDUCT LAYING PROCESS; MAINTENANCE CONSIDERATIONS; Chapter 10. Ocean Farming; FARMING THE OCEAN; OCEAN FARMING PARAMETERS; TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT; EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM; COMMERCIALIZATION. |