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Integrated Energy Systems with a Carnot Battery

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Integrated Energy Systems with a Carnot Battery: A Pathway to Low-Carbon Energy Systems explores Carnot battery technology and its integration into modern energy systems, demonstrating how it can efficiently store and convert energy. It presents optimization approaches of Carnot batteries, including various system layouts, thermal energy storage options, and round-trip efficiency improvements.Covering the modeling of integrated energy systems (IES), the book focuses on the interaction among various energy carriers (electricity, steam, heat, etc.). It explores the integration of Carnot batteries into IES, featuring case studies illustrating their applications in optimizing system performance, stability, and cost-effectiveness in industrial environments.This book serves as a comprehensive guide for energy researchers, engineers, and industry professionals seeking innovative solutions for energy storage and conversion.

Beginning to End the Climate Crisis

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There is no planet B. Activists share how we must inform and organize ourselves to save the future.“Act as though your house is on fire. Because it is.” Following Greta Thunberg, millions of young climate activists have been taking to the streets around the globe as part of the Fridays For Future movement. They demand that we “unite behind the science,” as, for too long, climate scientists have been ringing the alarm bells about rising temperatures, tipping points, and the devastating consequences of extreme weather—but politicians do nothing.So how do you begin to end the climate crisis? Luisa Neubauer and Alexander Repenning begin by telling stories. Neubauer cofounded the youth climate activist group in Germany and has become its most prominent voice. In this book she and Repenning weave in personal accounts of their evolution as climate activists with a thorough analysis of how climate change impacts their generation, and what every one of us can and must do about it. The young and old in the United States and around the world can learn valuable lessons from their European counterparts.

Stand by for Mars!

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Follow aspiring space cadets as they prepare for missions beyond Earth. A classic young-adult sci-fi adventure filled with excitement, learning, and discovery.

L'Homme-chevreuil

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Amoureux de la nature, Geoffroy Delorme n'a pas vingt ans quand il aperçoit, dans la forêt de Louviers en Normandie, un chevreuil curieux et joueur. Le jeune homme et l'animal s'apprivoisent. Geoffroy lui donne un nom, Daguet, et le chevreuil lui ouvre les portes de la forêt et du monde fascinant de ses semblables. Geoffroy s'installe parmi eux et son expérience immersive va durer sept ans. Vivre seul en forêt sans tente, ni abri, ni même un sac de couchage ou une couverture, c'est surtout apprendre à survivre. Geoffroy Delorme suit l'exemple des chevreuils.Il adopte leurs comportements, apprend à se nourrir, à dormir et à se protéger comme eux. Il acquiert une connaissance unique de ces animaux et de leur mode de vie, il les observe, les photographie et communique avec eux. Il apprend à partager leurs joies, leurs peines et leurs peurs. Aujourd'hui, il raconte.

Base Reality: Ultimate Existence

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Step inside and explore the true nature of base reality, of ultimate existence. It will blow your mind ... because it is your mind!

Climate of the Southeast United States

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Prepared for the 2013 National Climate Assessment and a landmark study in terms of its breadth and depth of coverage, Climate of the Southeast United States is the result of a collaboration among three Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments Centers: the Southeast Climate Consortium; the Carolinas Regional Sciences and Assessments; and the Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program; with contributions from numerous local, state, federal, and nongovernmental agencies to develop a comprehensive, state of the art look at the effects of climate change in the region. The book summarizes the scientific literature with respect to climate impacts on the Southeast United States, including 11 southern states to the east of the Mississippi River, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands; reviews the historic climate, current climate, and the projected future climate of the region; and describes interactions with important sectors of the Southeast and cross-sectoral issues, namely climate change mitigation, adaptation, and education and outreach. Rich in science and case studies, it examines the latest climate change impacts, scenarios, vulnerabilities, and adaptive capacity and offers decision makers and stakeholders a substantial basis from which to make informed choices that will affect the well-being of the region’s inhabitants in the decades to come.

Frequency Domain Analysis and Design of Nonlinear Systems based on Volterra Series Expansion

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This book is a systematic summary of some new advances in the area of nonlinear analysis and design in the frequency domain, focusing on the application oriented theory and methods based on the GFRF concept, which is mainly done by the author in the past 8 years. The main results are formulated uniformly with a parametric characteristic approach, which provides a convenient and novel insight into nonlinear influence on system output response in terms of characteristic parameters and thus facilitate nonlinear analysis and design in the frequency domain. The book starts with a brief introduction to the background of nonlinear analysis in the frequency domain, followed by recursive algorithms for computation of GFRFs for different parametric models, and nonlinear output frequency properties. Thereafter the parametric characteristic analysis method is introduced, which leads to the new understanding and formulation of the GFRFs, and nonlinear characteristic output spectrum (nCOS) and the nCOS based analysis and design method. Based on the parametric characteristic approach, nonlinear influence in the frequency domain can be investigated with a novel insight, i.e., alternating series, which is followed by some application results in vibration control. Magnitude bounds of frequency response functions of nonlinear systems can also be studied with a parametric characteristic approach, which result in novel parametric convergence criteria for any given parametric nonlinear model whose input-output relationship allows a convergent Volterra series expansion. This book targets those readers who are working in the areas related to nonlinear analysis and design, nonlinear signal processing, nonlinear system identification, nonlinear vibration control, and so on. It particularly serves as a good reference for those who are studying frequency domain methods for nonlinear systems.

De onbewoonbare aarde

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Als jouw zorgen over de opwarming van de aarde zich beperken tot angst voor de stijgende zeespiegel, dan zie je slechts het topje van de ijsberg. Het is veel, veel erger dan je denkt. Klimaatverandering wordt vaak beschouwd als een langzaam proces, maar de onheilspellende effecten ervan zien we nu al: hete zomers, grote droogte, allesverwoestende overstromingen en orkanen. Natuurrampen die zich vroeger maar één keer in een mensenleven voltrokken, overvallen de mensheid tegenwoordig jaarlijks. In De onbewoonbare aarde brengt David Wallace-Wells de laatste wetenschappelijke inzichten samen tot een schokkende aanklacht: we slagen er maar niet in om een betere toekomst voor ons te zien, laat staan dat we naar zo'n idee handelen. Wallace-Wells luidt de alarmklok en vertelt ons alles wat we niet willen maar wel moeten weten over klimaatverandering. Als we onze aanpak van dit probleem en onze manier van leven niet snel veranderen, zullen delen van de aarde door desastreuze ontwikkelingen in de nabije toekomst onbewoonbaar worden.

Publishing and the Advancement of Science

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Popular science books, selling in their thousands — even millions — help us appreciate breakthroughs in understanding the natural world, while highlighting the cultural importance of scientific knowledge. Textbooks bring these same advances to students; the scientists of tomorrow. But how do these books come about? And why are some of them so spectacularly successful?This is the first ever insider's account of science publishing, written by an editor intimately involved in the publication of some of the most famous bestsellers in the field. Michael Rodgers reveals the stories behind these extraordinary books, providing a behind-the-scenes view of the world of books, authors and ideas. These vivid and engaging narratives illuminate not only the challenges of writing about science, but also how publishing itself works and the creative collaboration between authors and editors that lies at its heart.The book (like many of those it describes) is intended for a wide readership. It will interest people in publishing, past and present, and also academics and students on publishing courses. Scientists exploring territories outside their own speciality will enjoy it, while there is invaluable advice for those planning their first popular book or textbook. It will also appeal to readers with a humanities background who, finding the concepts of science intriguing, want to know more about how they are developed and communicated.

My Inventions

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My Inventions is an autobiographical work by Nikola Tesla.In it, he details many of his famous engineering inventions.

The Bio-inspired X-Structure/Mechanism Approach for Exploring Nonlinear Benefits in Engineering

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This book presents a unique approach to the design and analysis of beneficial nonlinearity, which can take an important and critical role in engineering systems and thus cannot be simply ignored in structural design, dynamic response analysis, and parameter selection. A key issue in the area is thus systematically addressed about how to analyze and design potential nonlinearities introduced to or inherent in a system of under study, which is a must-do task in many practical applications involving vibration control, energy harvesting, sensor systems and robots, etc. This book, therefore, presents an up-to-date summary on the most recent development of a cutting-edge method for nonlinearity manipulation and employment developed in recent several years, named as the X-shaped structure or mechanism approach. The method is inspired from animal leg/limb skeletons and can provide passive low-cost high-efficiency adjustable and beneficial nonlinear stiffness (high static and ultra-low dynamic), nonlinear damping (dependent on resonant frequency and vibration excitation amplitude) and nonlinear inertia (low static and high dynamic) individually or simultaneously. The X-shaped structure or mechanism is a generic structure or mechanism representing a class of beneficial geometric nonlinearity with realizable and flexible linkage mechanism or structural design of different variants or forms (quadrilateral, diamond, polygon, K/Z/S/V-shape, or others) which all share similar geometric nonlinearity and thus similar nonlinear stiffness/damping properties, flexible in design, and easy to implement. This book systematically reviews the research background, motivation, essential bio-inspired ideas, advantages of this novel method, beneficial nonlinear properties in stiffness, damping and inertia, and potential applications, which have been developed ever since 2010. This book reveals important nonlinear properties and dynamic characteristics of nonlinear inertia that can be provided through the X-structure/mechanism and also presents advantageous features of X-structure/mechanism methods in multi-direction vibration control.

Uma outra ciência é possível

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"Somente descendo do pedestal a ciência poderá responder a tantas dúvidas sobre seu papel nestes tempos de mudanças sem precedentes" - Tatiana Roque, autora do texto de orelha. Este livro conta com um prefácio inédito da autora, feito para a edição brasileira. O compromisso que garantia à pesquisa científica o mínimo de independência vital já não existe mais e a produção do conhecimento passou a ser definida pelos interesses privados. Uma economia especulativa tomou conta da ciência: pesquisadoras e pesquisadores devem servir os "parceiros" industriais e participar dos jogos de guerra da competição econômica. Nesta análise de grande atualidade, Isabelle Stengers aponta os perigos de as ciências manterem alianças intrínsecas com o empreendimento de dominação e extração cujas consequências ameaçam agora todos os viventes da Terra. A autora nos convoca, portanto, a resistir àqueles que negam a possibilidade de um outro devir da ciência, que poderia torná-la capaz de ser uma aliada na luta por um futuro digno de ser vivido.

Ricardo's Virus

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A mysterious virus threatens everything, forcing humanity to confront science, ethics, and survival. William Tenn delivers a sharp and engaging speculative narrative.

Pleasure, Profit, Proselytism

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This book examines aspects of sport which Britain nurtured within its own culture and also transmitted to overseas territories with the expansion of empire.

The Bio-Inspired X-Structure/Mechanism Approach for Exploring Nonlinear Benefits in Engineering

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This book presents a unique approach to the design and analysis of beneficial nonlinearity, which can take an important and critical role in engineering systems and thus cannot be simply ignored in structural design, dynamic response analysis, and parameter selection. A key issue in the area is thus systematically addressed about how to analyze and design potential nonlinearities introduced to or inherent in a system of under study, which is a must-do task in many practical applications involving vibration control, energy harvesting, sensor systems and robots etc. This book, together with several other books in this book series, is to present an up-to-date summary on the most recent development of a cutting-edge method for nonlinearity manipulation and employment developed in recent several years, named as the X-shaped structure or mechanism approach. The X-shaped structure or mechanism is a generic structure or mechanism representing a class of beneficial geometric nonlinearity with realizable and flexible linkage mechanism or structural design of different variants or forms (quadrilateral, diamond, polygon, K/Z/S/V-shape, or others) which all share similar geometric nonlinearity and thus similar nonlinear stiffness/damping properties, flexible in design, and easy to implement. This book is particularly to present a systematic frequency domain analysis, design and optimization method of critical structural or control parameters in nonlinear systems including the X-structure/mechanism dynamics, aiming at better dynamic performance and special nonlinear response as expected in engineering practice. Cases studies in vehicle suspension, energy harvesting, fault detection and fuzzy membership optimization are all showcased. The new analysis and design method introduced in this book definitely present a totally new and powerful approach to optimization and understanding of a class of nonlinear systems from a special frequency domain point of view.

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