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The Rice Video - Carbon Dioxide in perspective by The Galileo Movement. BPA-free Plastic. Www.epa.gov/iaq/pdfs/sick_building_factsheet.pdf. The interactive map and database of the Worldwide Permaculture Network. Featured Profile Valley of the RosesProject Type:RuralDate created: 11 months ago Followers: 4 Last Update: 11 months ago Worldwide Permaculture Projects A growing list of permaculture projects worldwide This is the premier place to find out who is doing what, and where, in the permaculture world.

the interactive map and database of the Worldwide Permaculture Network

RSA Animate - The Empathic Civilisation. International Partnership for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells in the Economy. Intellectual Property Statistics. 'Kindersterfte makkelijk terug te dringen' International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. List of maglev train proposals. A maglev train coming out of the Pudong International Airport This is a list of proposed Maglev trains worldwide.

List of maglev train proposals

Europe[edit] Denmark[edit] Germany[edit] Assessment of Maglev Technology. Chapter 2: Assessment of Maglev Technology Return Table of Contents.

Assessment of Maglev Technology

How Maglev Trains Work" If you'v­e been to an airport lately, you've probably noticed that air travel is becoming more and more congested.

How Maglev Trains Work"

Despite frequent delays, airplanes still provide the fastest way to travel hundreds or thousands of miles. Passenger air travel revolutionized the transportation industry in the last century, letting people traverse great distances in a matter of hours instead of days or weeks. Nation New maglev line to connect western Beijing - china investment. China Rolls out Low-cost Maglev Trains. A low-cost maglev train rolls off the assembly line on Friday, January 20, 2012 in Zhuzhou, central China's Hunan Province.

China Rolls out Low-cost Maglev Trains

The three-carriage train, with a designed top speed of 100 kilometers an hour, is suitable for mass transit, inter-city travel and trips in scenic areas. (Photo: Xinhua) THE MAGLEV: The Super-powered Magnetic Wind Turbine Maglev, wind turbine, chinese wind power, wind power, wind turbine china, big wind turbine, magnetic levitation wind turbine, magnetic wind power, levitation wind power – Inhabitat - Sustainable Design I. Renewable energy produced from the wind has garnered much attention and support in recent years but is often criticized for its low output and lack of reliability.

THE MAGLEV: The Super-powered Magnetic Wind Turbine Maglev, wind turbine, chinese wind power, wind power, wind turbine china, big wind turbine, magnetic levitation wind turbine, magnetic wind power, levitation wind power – Inhabitat - Sustainable Design I

But now a super power wind turbine has come along that may be just what the renewable energy industry needs. The MagLev wind turbine, which was first unveiled at the Wind Power Asia exhibition in Beijing, is expected take wind power technology to the next level with magnetic levitation. Magnetic levitation is an extremely efficient system for wind energy. New York to Beijing in two hours without leaving the ground? Although there are similarities to the Startram concept we looked at recently, this take on maglev-like transport is all on terra firma and, if it ever eventuates, would take passengers from New York to Beijing in just two hours.

New York to Beijing in two hours without leaving the ground?

Advocates of Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT) claim it is silent, cheaper than planes, trains or cars and faster than jets. Future of Hydro Power. » Military Microgrids Pike Research. Solar Microgrids. Village-scale DC grids provide power for lighting and cell phones.

Solar Microgrids

Microgrids: reliable power in a small package. In 1996, a sagging power line in Oregon brushed against a tree, and within minutes 12 million customers in eight states lost power.

Microgrids: reliable power in a small package

Such is the vulnerability of today's power grid. To address this weakness, Berkeley Lab scientists are helping to develop a new approach to power generation in which a cluster of small, on-site generators serves office buildings, industrial parks, and homes. Called a microgrid, the system could help shoulder the nation's growing thirst for electricity — estimated to jump by almost 400 gigawatts by 2025 — without overburdening aging transmission lines or building the 1,000 new power plants required to meet this demand. And it may make statewide blackouts a thing of the past, or at least ensure that service to critical equipment is maintained. "Catastrophic loss of power to all systems like the 1996 blackout should be impossible," says Chris Marnay, an energy scientist in Berkeley Lab's Environmental Energy Technologies Division.

Microgrids. Distributed generation. Distributed generation, also called on-site generation, dispersed generation, embedded generation, decentralized generation, decentralized energy, distributed energy or district energy,[1] generates electricity from many small energy sources.

Distributed generation

Most countries generate electricity in large centralized facilities, such as fossil fuel (coal, gas powered), nuclear, large solar power plants or hydropower plants. These plants have excellent economies of scale, but usually transmit electricity long distances and can negatively affect the environment. Distributed generation allows collection of energy from many sources and may give lower environmental impacts and improved security of supply. Local wind generator, Spain, 2010 Economies of scale[edit] Historically, central plants have been an integral part of the electric grid, in which large generating facilities are specifically located either close to resources or otherwise located far from populated load centers.

Grid parity[edit] Causes of Climate Change. Causes of Climate Change The causes of climate change can be divided into two categories, human and natural causes. It is now a global concern that the climatic changes occurring today have been speeded up because of man's activities. The natural variability and the climate fluctuations of the climate system have always been part of the Earth’s history however there have been changes in concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere growing at an unprecedented rate and magnitude. The United Nations, governments and many top scientists around the world believe that we must act now to stabilise and arrest further changes. To understand climate change fully, the causes of climate change must be first identified.

Dutch Institute For Fundamental Energy Research. Dutch Institute For Fundamental Energy Research. The Third Industrial Revolution - Hans F. Sennholz. Many economic historians are concerned about the possibility of large-scale offshoring of jobs from the United States and Europe to China, India, and other countries. They speak of another Industrial Revolution, the third since the 18th century, that will transform commerce and industry and require painful adjustments. The first revolution brought drastic changes to England from the middle of the 18th century to the middle of the 19th century.

A few inventions and technological innovations gave rise to the factory system and the working population formerly laboring in agriculture found better employment in industrial production. The revolution spread to Western Europe and the United States a generation or two later. It has moved to some other countries ever since. Hydro. As of July 1, 2013 ThinkQuest has been discontinued. We would like to thank everyone for being a part of the ThinkQuest global community: Students - For your limitless creativity and innovation, which inspires us all. Teachers - For your passion in guiding students on their quest. Global Warming Effects and Causes: A Top 10 List.

June 7th, 2009 by Derek Markham One of the biggest issues facing us right now is global warming. Its effects on animals and on agriculture are indeed frightening, and the effects on the human population are even scarier. The facts about global warming are often debated in politics and the media, but, unfortunately, even if we disagree about the causes, global warming effects are real, global, and measurable. The causes are mainly from us, the human race, and the effects on us will be severe.

–> Highly recommended: What is Causing Global Warming? Alternative Energy - Wind, Solar, Hydro and other alt energy sources for home power. Hydropower Construction & Investment. The hydrogen revolution - Science - www.theage.com.au. Research - RTD info - Special Edition – June 2007 - Hydrogen revolution. In an interview with RTD Info magazine, Jeremy Rifkin presents his vision for a hydrogen economy and third industrial revolution. Rifkin believes that mitigating the effects of global warming whilst weaning Europe from its dependency on fossil fuels are the two greatest challenges facing the EU over the next 50 years.

Energy: renewable energy, hydrogen fuel technology and the "smart power grid" will form the building blocks of a wholly new energy infrastructure. Introduction - Fuel Cells and Hydrogen - Energy Research. Energy networks - Introduction - Energy Research. Areas of EU-funded Research: sites and sub sites - Research & Innovation. Cheap Hydrogen. The Hydrogen Revolution. Www.world-aluminium.org/UserFiles/File/160608 Criteria.pdf. Www.globalinnovationindex.org/gii/GII COMPLETE_PRINTWEB.pdf. Iri.jrc.ec.europa.eu/concord-2010/papers/sbragia_piscopo.pdf. Industrial Reports Online - What Our Clients Are Saying. Www.industrialreports.com/manufacturing.pdf. PROJECT BEST. EMAL named ‘Best Industrial Project in the GCC’ for 2012.

Industrial Projects Report Magazine: The Construction Job Hotsheet. Www.gwpmed.org/files/IWRM-Libya/Omar Samin GMMR.pdf. The Great Man-Made River Project: Libya’s Achievement. The Great Man-Made River Project: Libya’s Achievement and NATO’s War Crimes. Libya Touts Great Man-Made River as 8th Wonder of the World. Libya invests $20 billion in massive man made river to irrigate the thirsty nation. It took new roads to build, and a vast amount of resources. So far investment interest from the US has been poor. Agricultural Innovation: Sustaining what agriculture? For what European bio-economy? For a different Europe. Good Food, Good Farming - Let’s march to Brussels!