Justine Musk Diesel Soot Health Impacts - Diesel & Health in America - Clean Air Task Force (CATF) To view health impacts in your community, enter your ZIP Code above or click on your state on the map below. Click here for National Health Impacts. Diesel Soot Impacts Across U.S. Emissions from the 13 million diesel engines in the U.S. are associated with respiratory illness, cancer, heart attacks and premature death. Learn More about health impacts from diesel exhaust and how the analysis was done. Read CATF's report Diesel and Health in America: The Lingering Threat Take Action.
Willis Harman Willis Harman (August 16, 1918 – January 30, 1997)[1] was an American engineer, social scientist, academic, futurist, writer, and visionary. He is best remembered for his work with SRI International, for being president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences in California,[2] and for his work in raising consciousness within the international business community.[3] Early life and education[edit] Career[edit] Harman taught for several years at the University of Florida before joining the Stanford faculty in 1952.[2] He eventually left Stanford to become a senior social scientist at SRI International where he initiated a futures research program, exploring the national and global future. In this capacity he worked on long-term strategic planning and policy analysis for an assortment of corporations, government agencies, and international organizations.[4] He then served as president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences from 1975 until his death in 1997. Selected works[edit] References[edit]
Carbon Sequestration and Storage: Developing a Transportation Infrastructure This study focuses on the pipeline infrastructure requirements for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) in connection with compliance with mandatory greenhouse gas emissions reductions. The major conclusion of the study is that while CCS technologies are relatively well defined, there remain technological challenges in the carbon capture and sequestration phases, and less so in transportation. Carbon capture is the most significant cost in the CCS process. The study forecasts that the amount of pipeline that will be needed to transport CO2 will be between 15,000 miles and 66,000 miles by 2030, depending on how much CO2 must be sequestered and the degree to which enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is involved. The upper end of the forecast range is of the same order of magnitude as the miles of existing U.S. crude oil pipelines and products pipelines.
The 1931 Histomap: The entire history of the world distilled into a single map/chart. The Vault is Slate's history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. This “Histomap,” created by John B. This giant, ambitious chart fit neatly with a trend in nonfiction book publishing of the 1920s and 1930s: the “outline,” in which large subjects (the history of the world! The 5-foot-long Histomap was sold for $1 and folded into a green cover, which featured endorsements from historians and reviewers. the actual picture of the march of civilization, from the mud huts of the ancients thru the monarchistic glamour of the middle ages to the living panorama of life in present day America. The chart emphasizes domination, using color to show how the power of various “peoples” (a quasi-racial understanding of the nature of human groups, quite popular at the time) evolved throughout history. It’s unclear what the width of the colored streams is meant to indicate.
Climate Change Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions management and reporting have emerged as leading environmental policy issue at the state, provincial, regional and federal levels in the United States and Canada. Several new initiatives have been launched or are currently under development in the U.S. and Canada that establish rules to report and track these emissions. In addition, the 110th Congress will begin to focus more intently on the merits and the possible form of a mandatory Federal GHG control program. The primary GHG emissions attributable to the natural gas transmission industry include Carbon Dioxide (CO2) from combustion sources and methane (CH4) from fugitive emissions (leaks) and venting. To understand better how potential regulation of GHG might impact natural gas pipeline companies, one must first have a clear picture of the overall US emissions compared to that of the gas transmission industry. The gas transmission industry CO2 emissions comprise just 0.5 percent of U.S.GHG emissions.
OUR ENERGY FUTURE Copyright © 2006, Harold Aspden This website presents a deliberately concise summary account of something of vital importance to the future of mankind. The world needs a new source of energy, one that is not an exhaustible commodity subject to powerplay as between nations. First, however, let me introduce myself. Message No. 1: Physicists have come to recognize that there exists a quantum underworld alive with energy and permeating all space. There is also a secret they have yet to fathom. How else could the Sun spinning about its own axis have come into existence? In depth analysis of the physics involved, meaning the effect of the resulting radial electric field on that quantum underworld, then allows one to calculate the resulting rate of spin and thereby understand how the solar system was created. Scientists lacking the necessary imagination do not seek to understand how the thunderball is created and so they seldom write about it. Dr. 2007 Update Harold Aspden, 19th March 2006
Standards and Practices for Bulk Storage Skip to main navigation Below is a partial listing of consensus standards and recommended practices which are applicable to the Chemical Bulk Storage (6 NYCRR Parts 595-599) and Petroleum Bulk Storage (6 NYCRR Parts 612-614) programs in New York State. Many of these consensus standards and practices are available for purchase although a few of the documents, e.g., federal government publications, may be downloaded from the Internet at no cost. Other comparable consensus codes, standards, or practices which are developed by a nationally recognized organization or independent testing laboratory, e.g., Underwriters Laboratories (UL), Petroleum Equipment Institute (PEI), Chlorine Institute (CI), Steel Tank Institute (STI), etc., which meet the standards of 6 NYCRR Parts 595-599 are also acceptable. Steel Tank/Piping Systems The following publications of the American Petroleum Institute (API) can be searched for and purchased using the offsite link on the right: Corrosion Other