GC: n CT: The first offshore wind farm in the UK was a near-shore installation in Blyth harbour, north east England, which started operating in 2000. Since then, the sector has developed with a series of licensing ‘Rounds’ co-ordinated by the Crown Estate, the landlord and owner of the seabed.

CG: n CT: The boundaries for locating new offshore wind turbines are constantly changing. Building wind farms out at sea provides stronger and more stable wind resources, as well as a solution to avoid disturbing the local environment and the view shed from the shores. S: http://www.ramboll.com/megatrend/feature-articles/offshore-wind-turbines-are-setting-new-records (last access: 12

GC: n CT: The olive mill wastewater (OMW) is a stable emulsion composed by water, olive pulp and residual oil. An approach for using this waste as a renewable resource is of greater interest. Several authors have been studding physicochemical treatment methods. However, the biological treatments allow not only the

GC: n CT: In the context of computer and information sciences, an ontology defines a set of representational primitives with which to model a domain of knowledge or discourse. The representational primitives are typically classes (or sets), attributes (or properties), and relationships (or relations among class members). The definitions of

CG: n CT: An operating system is the most important software that runs on a computer. It manages the computer’s memory and processes, as well as all of its software and hardware. It also allows you to communicate with the computer without knowing how to speak the computer’s language. Without an operating system, a computer is useless. Your computer’s operating system (OS) manages all of

GC: n CT: Many reports have emphasized the need for major changes to the agricultural system to meet the challenge of feeding the growing population while minimizing environmental impacts (Godfray et al., 2010; Foley et al., 2011). Organic farming, which largely relies on organic materials instead of chemical fertilizers, pesticides,

GC: n CT: Organohalogen compounds (OHCs) have been used and still are used extensively as pesticides, flame retardants, hydraulic fluids, and in other industrial applications. These compounds are stable, most often lipophilic, and may therefore easily biomagnify. Today these compounds are found distributed both in human tissue, including breast milk,

GC: n CT: An oscillating water column uses a large volume of moving water as a piston in a cylinder. Air is forced out of the column as a wave rises and fresh air is drawn in as the wave falls. This movement of air turns a weir turbine at

See ocean thermal energy conversion

GC: n CT: OTEC power plants require substantial capital investment upfront. OTEC researchers believe private sector firms probably will be unwilling to make the enormous initial investment required to build large-scale plants until the price of fossil fuels increases dramatically or national governments provide financial incentives. Another factor hindering the

GC: n CT: Building N0.1 The monitoring carried out. The indoor temperature and humidity sensors were placed in the living room and in one of the bedrooms (see Figure 5.35). The outdoor temperature sensor was located at a sheltered position on the balcony. The sensors (Tinytags) were installed on 31

GC: n CT: One way to quantify whether a substance is a strong oxidizing agent or a strong reducing agent is to use the oxidation-reduction potential or redox potential. Strong reducing agents can be said to have a high electron-transfer potential. Strong oxidizing agents have low electron-transfer potential. Oxidizing and

CG: n CT: The ozone layer is a belt of naturally occurring ozone gas that sits 9.3 to 18.6 miles (15 to 30 kilometers) above Earth and serves as a shield from the harmful ultraviolet B radiation emitted by the sun. Ozone is a highly reactive molecule that contains three

GC: n CT: A “PANEMONE” is defined as a device which derives its energy from the wind in such a way that the wind-catching vanes move IN THE SAME DIRECTION as the thrusting force of the wind (this is called “DRAG”). This is in contrast to the motion of a

GC: CT: Dish-Stirling plants are a suitable solution for decentralised applications. The main advantage is that this concept does not need water for cooling purposes in the conversion cycle. They are non-dispatchable plants and the production is stopped when clouds pass. Some research is being conducted on advanced storage and

GC: n CT: At higher temperatures, particles have more energy. Some of this energy can be transmitted to other particles that are at a lower temperature. For example, in the gas state, when a fast moving particle collides with a slower moving particle, it transfers some of its energy to

GC: n CT: Using data from a NASA satellite, scientists have discovered a massive particle accelerator in the heart of one of the harshest regions of near-Earth space, a region of super-energetic, charged particles surrounding the globe and known as the Van Allen radiation belts. New results from NASA’s Van

GC: n CT: Solar cells made from III-V materials have achieved efficiencies greater than 30%. Effectively ideal passivation plays an important role in achieving these high efficiencies. Standard modeling techniques are applied to Ga0.5In0.5P solar cells to show the effects of passivation. Accurate knowledge of the absorption coefficient is essential

See bioclimatic house

GC: n CT: Solar energy can be utilized in various ways – to provide electricity, mechanical power, heat and lighting. Passive solar heating and cooling can save substantial electricity bills. Design of a building is very important for tapping passive solar energy. The building and windows are designed in such

GC: n CT: What is Pattern Recognition? It is generally easy for a person to differentiate the sound of a human voice, from that of a violin; a handwritten numeral “3,” from an “8”; and the aroma of a rose, from that of an onion. However, it is difficult for

GC: n CT: The USA Study also reports that: For the first time solar power is beginning to reach cost parity with conventional energy sources. As solar prices decline and the capital and fuel costs for coal, natural gas, and nuclear plants rise, the U.S. will reach a crossover point

GC: n CT: Since World War II there has been a big change in attitudes towards the use of peat as an energy source and the role of peatlands as a natural resource. In the 1950´s peat was still regarded as an important fuel in many countries in Europe, and

GC: n CT: Henan Kingman M&E Complete Plant Co., Ltd(KMEC)has been dedicatedly engaged in manufacturing and supplying biomass processing equipment for more than two decades, with the production range widely covering pellet mill and complete pellet plant to turn biomass waste material into cash cow. Kingman(KMEC) specifically deals in biomass