Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air
2.7. Heating and cooling http://www.ck12.org Figure 7.10:My domestic cumulative gas consumption, in kWh, each year from 1993 to ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 2. Numbers, Not Adjectives Figure 7.11:Heating and cooling – about 37 units per day per person. I’ve ...
2.8. Hydroelectricity http://www.ck12.org 2.8 Hydroelectricity To make hydroelectric power, you need altitude, and you need rain ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 2. Numbers, Not Adjectives Figure 8.2:Altitudes of land in Britain. The rectangles show how much lan ...
2.8. Hydroelectricity http://www.ck12.org Figure 8.3:Hydroelectricity. What should we estimate is the plausible practical limit? ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 2. Numbers, Not Adjectives Rainfallstatistics are from the BBC weather centre. The raw power per uni ...
2.9. Light http://www.ck12.org 2.9 Light Lighting home and work The brightest domestic lightbulbs use 250W, and bedside lamps us ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 2. Numbers, Not Adjectives required by that policy compare with the power already being used to trun ...
2.9. Light http://www.ck12.org Figure 9.3:Total cumulative cost of using a traditional incandescent 100W bulb for 3 hours per da ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 2. Numbers, Not Adjectives traffic signals. According to DUKES 2005, the total power for public ligh ...
2.10. Offshore wind http://www.ck12.org 2.10 Offshore wind The London Array offshore wind farm will make a crucial contribution ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 2. Numbers, Not Adjectives fishing areas must reduce the plausibly-available area; I propose that we ...
2.10. Offshore wind http://www.ck12.org Offshore wind is tough to pull off because of the corrosive effects of sea water. At the ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 2. Numbers, Not Adjectives Figure 10.3:Offshore wind. For comparison, to make 48 kWh per day of nucl ...
2.10. Offshore wind http://www.ck12.org GW” would cost about £33 billion. One way to clarify this £33 billion cost of offshore w ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 2. Numbers, Not Adjectives Going on emotions alone, I would like to live in a country with virtually ...
2.10. Offshore wind http://www.ck12.org TABLE2.8:(continued) depth 5 to 30 me- tres depth 5 to 30 me- tres Greater Wash 7400 14 ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 2. Numbers, Not Adjectives renewables (medium levelized costs in 2010) are as follows. Onshore wind: ...
2.11. Gadgets http://www.ck12.org 2.11 Gadgets One of the greatest dangers to society is the phone charger. The BBC News has bee ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 2. Numbers, Not Adjectives Figure 11.2:These five chargers – three for mobile phones, one for a pock ...
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