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Sense And Sustainability, Ken Hickson

Social Space

Like the proverbial chicken and egg, climate change and sustainability are inextricably linked; it is impossible to decide which comes first, but urgent solutions are needed. Ken Hickson delivers a timely lesson on the four E’s of sustainability—energy, environment, economics and ethics.

Modeling Of Growth Kinetics And Characterization Of Membrane Mechanics, Antonio Nava

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

One growing field in alternative energy is biofuel production through microorganisms. These fields of research include hydrogen and biofuel production through the cultivation of algae. We've selected 2 different algae, Anabaena sp. cpcc 387 and Tetraselmis to study. Through mathematical modeling of Anabaena we investigate the complex multicellular relationships and colony stability when noise is introduced. In conjunction with researchers at NREL, we've set out to characterize Tetraselmis cells' membrane elasticity.

Kings Canyon To Alger Pass Pipeline Project, Project No. Utu-82322, United States Department Of The Interior, Bureau Of Land Management

Environmental Assessments (UT)

XTO has requested their existing Temporary Use Permit (UTU-82322-01), which authorizes an existing 8 inch, surface, steel, and natural gas pipeline be converted to a permanent right-of-way grant. In addition, XTO proposes to remove a portion of the existing pipeline and to install an additional 15,075 feet of 12 inch, buried, natural gas pipe line to re-direct the flow of gas. XTO has constructed a natural gas compressor plant (Wild Horse Bench Compressor Site) on Ute Tribal land and would like to redirect the flow of gas from the Kings Canyon Area to this facility which involves the removal of …

Multi-Component Ab2 Metal Hydride Alloys For Nickel Metal Hydride Battery Applications, Jean Nei

Wayne State University Dissertations

Compared to the mish metal-based AB₅ MH alloy commonly used in Ni/MH batteries, the transition metal-based AB₂ MH alloy not only reduces the rare earth dependency, it also has higher specific energy. In order to further improve the performance of AB₂ MH alloy, it's crucial to full understand its multi-phase nature, which includes the main C14/C15 Laves phases and the secondary non-Laves phases.

In order to optimize the gaseous phase and electrochemical advantages of both the C14 and C15 Laves phases, a study was established to recognize the factors that affect the C14/C15 phase abundance. Average electron …

Biofuels Production From Hydrotreating Of Vegetable Oil Using Supported Noble Metals, And Transition Metal Carbide And Nitride, Huali Wang

Wayne State University Dissertations

The focus of this research is to prepare non-sulfided hydrotreating catalysts, supported noble metal and transition metal carbide/ nitride, and evaluate their hydrocracking activities and selectivities by using soybean oil as the feedstock. For comparison study, catalytic cracking of soybean oil over a commercialized ZSM-5 was investigated. However, steady state could not be reached because significant amounts of tar and coke were generated during the reaction though a high yield (21%) of jet fuel was obtained from the process. Compared to the catalytic cracking process, less tar and coke were formed during the hydrocracking process and stable continuous flow reaction …

Energy Of The Future: Nuclear Energy, Najla Zogheib

Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies

Energy of the Future: Nuclear Energy

Nebraska’S Secret, Shea Winkler

Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies

Nebraska’s Secret

Thorium; Fuel For Thought?, Miles Wynn

Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies

Thorium; Fuel for Thought?

How Wind Energy May Be The Next Big Thing, Erinn Richert

Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies

How Wind Energy May Be the Next Big Thing

“A Portfolio Of Dreams: Clean Energy As An Investment”, Eric Holley

Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies

“A Portfolio of Dreams: Clean Energy as an Investment”

Indoor Climate-Control, Joseph Komenda

Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies

Indoor Climate-control

From Invader To Income, Tatiana Height

Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies

From Invader to Income

Is A Carbon Tax The Answer?, Sarah Gardels

Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies

Is A Carbon Tax the Answer?

Bottled Disaster, Alex Arneson

Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies

Bottled Disaster

Green Crude: Energy For The New Climate Era, Tobias Burnham

Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies

Green Crude: Energy for the New Climate Era

Producing Biofuels Without Raising The Food Price, Lais Speranza

Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies

Producing Biofuels without Raising the Food Price

Why We Need Cafe Standards Or A Higher Gasoline Tax, Celeste Wanner

Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies

Why We need CAFE Standards or a Higher Gasoline Tax

Africa's Next Step, Kyle Pierce

Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies

Africa's Next step

Integrating Green Energy, Kent Gunderson

Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies

Integrating Green Energy

There Is No Planet B, Lukas Mullins

Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies

There is No Planet B