Progress in Combustion Diagnostics, Science and Technology

Advancing relational accounts of ‘resource-making’ processes by deploying insights from science and technology studies, this article outlines crucial new lines of inquiry for geographical research on unconventional fossil fuels. The exploitation of various carbon-rich substitutes for hydrocarbons has rapidly expanded over the last two decades, to become a highly contentious issue which augments scientific dissensus and generates new collective engagements with the subsurface. The article invites geographers to examine the epistemically and politically transformative potential of such resource-making controversies in terms of reconfiguring: the production of geoscientific knowledge, anticipation of post-conventional energy systems, and temporal strategies of (de)economizing extractive futures.

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Requirements and Design a Small Wind Rotor for a Small House in Guildford

International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering ◽

10.4018/ijitwe.2014010101 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 1-11

Author(s):

Triada Vlasakoudi ◽

Mohammed Sanduk

Keyword(s):

Renewable Energy ◽

Electric Power ◽

Conceptual Design ◽

Electricity Generation ◽

Science And Technology ◽

Energy Systems ◽

Power Requirement ◽

Rotor Design ◽

Small House

The adoption of renewable energy based systems for electricity generation, leaving aside fossil based energy systems is of paramount importance to humanity. The purpose of this paper is the design of a small wind rotor that meets the electric power requirement of a small house in Guildford, UK. The conceptual design developed, comes from the evaluation of the existing science and technology in terms of wind rotor design and their adjustment to the data, information and facts that apply in Guildford.

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Laboratory Simulation of Lunar Luminescence

Symposium - International Astronomical Union ◽

10.1017/s007418090017843x ◽

1962 ◽

Vol 14 ◽

pp. 441-444 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

J. E. Geake ◽

H. Lipson ◽

M. D. Lumb

Keyword(s):

Science And Technology ◽

Laboratory Simulation ◽

The Moon ◽

Physics Department ◽

Luminescent Spectrum

Work has recently begun in the Physics Department of the Manchester College of Science and Technology on an attempt to simulate lunar luminescence in the laboratory. This programme is running parallel with that of our colleagues in the Manchester University Astronomy Department, who are making observations of the luminescent spectrum of the Moon itself. Our instruments are as yet only partly completed, but we will describe briefly what they are to consist of, in the hope that we may benefit from the comments of others in the same field, and arrange to co-ordinate our work with theirs.

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