Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air
2.14. Tide http://www.ck12.org Figure 14.6:The average incoming power of lunar tidal waves crossing these two lines has been mea ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 2. Numbers, Not Adjectives Given that tidal currents of 2 to 3 knots are common, there are many plac ...
2.14. Tide http://www.ck12.org lagoons in Britain are the Wash on the east coast, and the waters off Blackpool on the west coast ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 2. Numbers, Not Adjectives on the land, and they can’t see under the sea, so objections to the visua ...
2.14. Tide http://www.ck12.org Notes and further reading The power of an artificial tide-pool.The power per unit area of a tide- ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 2. Numbers, Not Adjectives 2.15 Stuff One of the main sinks of energy in the “developed” world is th ...
2.15. Stuff http://www.ck12.org Phase D: Disposal.This phase includes the energy cost of putting the stuff back in a hole in the ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 2. Numbers, Not Adjectives packaging is 4 kWh/d. A little of this embodied energy is recoverable by ...
2.15. Stuff http://www.ck12.org Bigger stuff The largest stuff most people buy is a house. In Chapter Stuff II, I estimate the e ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 2. Numbers, Not Adjectives Transporting the stuff Up till now I’ve tried to make estimates ofpersona ...
2.15. Stuff http://www.ck12.org Figure 15.6:The container shipEver Ubertyat Thamesport Container Terminal. Photo by Ian Boyle ht ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 2. Numbers, Not Adjectives Figure 15.8:Energy requirements of different forms of freight-transport. ...
2.15. Stuff http://www.ck12.org Figure 15.9:Water delivery: 0.3 kWh/d; sewage processing: 0.1 kWh/d. The Island of Jersey has a ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 2. Numbers, Not Adjectives house-making, and 3 for packaging); and another 12 kWh per day per person ...
2.15. Stuff http://www.ck12.org Figure 15.11:Making our stuff costs at least 48 kWh/d. Delivering the stuff costs 12 kWh/d. Pape ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 2. Numbers, Not Adjectives Figure 15.8. Energy consumptions of ships. The five points in the figure ...
2.16. Geothermal http://www.ck12.org 2.16 Geothermal Geothermal energy comes from two sources: from radioactive decay in the cru ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 2. Numbers, Not Adjectives a crushed-ice drink through a straw. You stick in the straw, and suck, an ...
2.16. Geothermal http://www.ck12.org Figure 16.4:Temperature profile in a typical continent. For the temperature profile shown i ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 2. Numbers, Not Adjectives Figure 16.5: Enhanced geothermal extraction from hot dry rock. One well i ...
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