Natural Sources of Power
Author | : Robert Steele Ball |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Water-power |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert Steele Ball |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Water-power |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert S. Ball |
Publisher | : Literary Licensing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2014-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781498050029 |
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1908 Edition.
Author | : Robert Steele Ball |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Water-power |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Steele Ball |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-05-21 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781358268229 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Gary A. Klein |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1999-02-18 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0262260867 |
Anyone who watches the television news has seen images of firefighters rescuing people from burning buildings and paramedics treating bombing victims. How do these individuals make the split-second decisions that save lives? Most studies of decision making, based on artificial tasks assigned in laboratory settings, view people as biased and unskilled. Gary Klein is one of the developers of the naturalistic decision making approach, which views people as inherently skilled and experienced. It documents human strengths and capabilities that so far have been downplayed or ignored. Since 1985, Klein has conducted fieldwork to find out how people tackle challenges in difficult, nonroutine situations. Sources of Power is based on observations of humans acting under such real-life constraints as time pressure, high stakes, personal responsibility, and shifting conditions. The professionals studied include firefighters, critical care nurses, pilots, nuclear power plant operators, battle planners, and chess masters. Each chapter builds on key incidents and examples to make the description of the methodology and phenomena more vivid. In addition to providing information that can be used by professionals in management, psychology, engineering, and other fields, the book presents an overview of the research approach of naturalistic decision making and expands our knowledge of the strengths people bring to difficult tasks.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Newnes |
Total Pages | : 1056 |
Release | : 2013-03-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0080964524 |
Every decision about energy involves its price and cost. The price of gasoline and the cost of buying from foreign producers; the price of nuclear and hydroelectricity and the costs to our ecosystems; the price of electricity from coal-fired plants and the cost to the atmosphere. Giving life to inventions, lifestyle changes, geopolitical shifts, and things in-between, energy economics is of high interest to Academia, Corporations and Governments. For economists, energy economics is one of three subdisciplines which, taken together, compose an economic approach to the exploitation and preservation of natural resources: energy economics, which focuses on energy-related subjects such as renewable energy, hydropower, nuclear power, and the political economy of energy resource economics, which covers subjects in land and water use, such as mining, fisheries, agriculture, and forests environmental economics, which takes a broader view of natural resources through economic concepts such as risk, valuation, regulation, and distribution Although the three are closely related, they are not often presented as an integrated whole. This Encyclopedia has done just that by unifying these fields into a high-quality and unique overview. The only reference work that codifies the relationships among the three subdisciplines: energy economics, resource economics and environmental economics. Understanding these relationships just became simpler! Nobel Prize Winning Editor-in-Chief (joint recipient 2007 Peace Prize), Jason Shogren, has demonstrated excellent team work again, by coordinating and steering his Editorial Board to produce a cohesive work that guides the user seamlessly through the diverse topics This work contains in equal parts information from and about business, academic, and government perspectives and is intended to serve as a tool for unifying and systematizing research and analysis in business, universities, and government
Author | : Manfred Weissenbacher |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 940 |
Release | : 2009-09-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0313356270 |
A landmark book rolls out a bold, new, energy-based theory of human history based on a simple, yet powerful law: whoever controls the world's effective energy supplies during a given energy age will inevitably dominate the economic, political, and cultural history of that age. The innovative theory articulated in Sources of Power: How Energy Forges Human History parses history into four ages: the foraging, agriculture, coal, and oil ages, each defined by the dominant source of power. Manfred Weissenbacher tests this sweeping theory against the panorama of world history, combining formidable powers of synthesis with a specialist's deep understanding of energy systems and technologies. After proving the operation of his law through history and into the present, Weissenbacher applies it to global geopolitical trends. He assesses the prospects of the various candidate technologies to succeed oil and charts future scenarios based on the distribution of energy reserves. Finally, he forecasts the fates of the American and Chinese empires in the twilight of the oil age: the United States as a mature superpower forced to deploy military might to occupy oilfields in the Middle East; China as an emerging superpower forced to deploy economic might to muscle in on the development of Third World oilfields.
Author | : Andrew L. Simon |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2013-10-22 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1483187500 |
Energy Resources mainly focuses on energy, including its definition, historical perspective, sources, utilization, and conservation. This text first explains what energy is and what its uses are. This book then explains coal, oil, and natural gas, which are some of the common energy sources used by various industries. Other energy sources such as wind, solar, geothermal, water, and nuclear energy sources are also tackled. This text also looks into fusion energy and techniques of energy conversion. This book concludes by explaining the energy allocation and utilization crisis. This publication will be invaluable to those interested in energy science.
Author | : Carol Hupping |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780878570881 |
Discusses wind and water power, solar energy, and energy from wood and from farm wastes and explains how to harness these power sources for home use.
Author | : John Peter Oleson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 884 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199734852 |
Nearly every aspect of daily life in the Mediterranean world and Europe during the florescence of the Greek and Roman cultures is relevant to engineering and technology. This text highlights the accomplishments of the ancient societies, the research problems, and stimulates further progress in the history of ancient technology.