Essays on Emission

The natural resources like oil and gas are of great importance for any country, as the drive the plants, heating and so on. This market though important is very tricky and it take much effort and resource not only to enter it, but to stay. Exxon Mobil is one of the biggest international corporation in a gas and oil fields. To ensure stability, promote growth and avoid potential dangers it is essential for any companies to be prepared, thus different analysis like SWOT, PEST and STEEP are performed, to evaluate the current situation in the company and on the ...

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Corporate social responsibility and climate shifts: Introduction

The task in connecting corporate responsibility and ethical business practices is to make the engaged parties move towards resolving the problems in the area. Climate shifts is one topic that is well suited in this area. The issue of climate change requires an in-depth study in that there is a rising disconnect between the increasing public adoption of the prevalence and the critical nature of the dilemmas it presents and the reluctance and even outright hostility by corporate leaders and policy makers, specifically those in the energy exploration and generation industry, to acquiescing with the impacts ...

ABSTRACT

Carbon dioxide emission in the United States rose by 7% between 1990 and 2013. Scientists have continually raised concern over the implications of these increased levels of carbon dioxide. Evidently, such high emission levels pose a threat to the environment and life in general. The aim of the following essay is to: define weathering and identify the major classifications of weathering. The essay also clearly defines and illustrates the relationship that exists between carbon dioxide levels and the rate of chemical weathering. I will incisively discuss the combination of water and atmospheric carbon dioxide to form carbonic acid. This ...

Energy production has experienced numerous landmark changings thought the century. Although there is no perfect solution found in terms of satisfying the needs for energy resources and mitigating its environmental and social impact, hydropower generation is considered a renewable energy source and alternative to fossil fuel combustion. Hydropower generation has experienced significant advancement throughout its history. However, the principle of its work is rather comprehensive. The energy of falling water is employed to turn the turbine, which is connected to the electricity generator. Furthermore, electricity is supplied through grids to industrial or domestic units. In most cases dams are ...

Intructor’s name

Cyber sphere is very important because of the growing number and severity of cyber-attacks; it can result in economic loss, loss of data and loss of reputation for the SMEs. UK economy depends on the cyber-infrastructure in various aspects social, cultural and economic. Cyber threats and cyber-attacks were in 2010 ranked among the four top national risks (Government’s National Security Strategy 27). UK is one of the countries with the most cyber power. With the growing number of users of internet, purchasing and buying things on the internet, doing business, communicate every SME can be affected by cyber ...

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Problems of various recycling methods .3 Executive summary 3 Field investigation ..5 Benefits ..8 Recommendations ..9

Introduction

Most countries need to solve the issue of waste disposal. Currently the bulk of waste dumped at landfills. This situation has extremely negative impact on the environment, since the decomposition of organic substances are released into the atmosphere large quantities of methane, a greenhouse gas many times more potent than carbon dioxide. According to researches many scientists still have not found the optimal solution for the safe and cost-effective waste management. Waste disposal and waste incineration do irreparable harm to human health and ...

Abstract

The following will examine the environmental policies and activities practiced by Nostrum Oil & Gas (previously known as Zhaikmunai LLP) and how well they conform to the ISO 14000 voluntary environmental management standards created and published by the International Organization for Standards. Nostrum Oil & Gas is located in the UK and is listed on the London Stock exchange, but has most of its facilities in Kazakhstan. It concentrates on oil and gas exploration and production. Like many other corporations around the world, Nostrum Oil & Gas is attempting to ensure that it's corporate activities are socially sustainable and environmentally sound. The ...

Introduction

Environmental degradation is not uncommon. In fact, it is one of the most talked about topic in international conventions and forums. Apparently, the degradation of the environment is not only a local concern. Environmental problems such as climate change, deforestation, pollution and many others are perpetrated in a local and national level and yet it has global ramifications. However, despite the fact that there are international agencies that creates environmental policies, the effectiveness of these policies and regulations largely depend on the propensity of a particular nation to implement it. The nation’s territorial powers and sovereignty make it ...

ACME Car Rental

Facts ACME Car Rental purchased a total of 1,000 Volkswagen model cars at a total purchase price of $17,000,000 from the Volkswagen Company. It then sold some of the cars to individual consumers and other smaller rental fleet companies. However, unknown to the purchaser, Volkswagen Company, the vendor, had fitted the cars with an ‘emissions defeat device’ which is software that was meant to cheat on the rate of emissions of the cars. This was in a bid to conform to the relevant laws and regulations in place. Though these vehicles were able to pass the ...

Volkswagen AG

Primary activity of the company Volkswagen AG is the second largest automobile producers in the world, headquartered in Wolfsburg, Germany. The Volkswagen group includes twelve brands: Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Volkswagen Passenger Cars, Ducati, SEAT, Audi, Bentley, SKODA, Porsche, Lamborghini, Bugatti, Man and Scania. The Group is the largest car manufacturer in Europe: 25, 1 % of all new cars, made in Western Europe, produced by Volkswagen. The company is operating 119 plants in 20 European countries and 11 countries in Asia, Africa and Americas, occupying approximately 13 % share in the global market of passenger cars. The production of the Group ...

1.0 Introduction The rate at which the availability of natural fuel resources are getting depleted is higher than the consumption (Huang, Krock and Oney 158). This calls for clean energy sources such as Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC). Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion whose short form is abbreviated as OTEC is essentially based on the utilization of temperature differences (Plocek, Laboy and Marti 1). In particular, the difference of incumbent temperature between the deep and the shallow areas of water become the source of electrical energy. This electricity is produced when the temperature difference is used to run a heat ...

Roll Number

Introduction After Global Agreement for Trade and Tariff came into existence in the 1990s, the overall supply chain process used in companies changed completely. Companies started sourcing raw materials and finished goods from thousands of miles away to gain cost advantage even though those were available nearby the point of consumption (Kannan and Sasikumar, 2009). Supply chain suddenly became the main differentiating factor between companies. The supply chain process increased the overall goods movement, which increased the greenhouse gas emission enormously. Increased level of demands started generating huge amounts of waste and this became a concern for the governments. ...

A Dissertation Methodology

The electro-microprobe technology Modern geochemists (Donovan et al, 2003) generally agree that modern electron microprobe analysis (EMPA) is bringing the most precise and most accurate chemical analyses for solid specimens today. Moreover, these highest-quality results can be brought to routine achievements under carefully crafted analytical protocols. The modern EMPA technology already incorporates qualitative and quantitative analytical methods in a non-destructive mechanism even from micron-sized samples of surface materials at a sensitivity of many parts per million (ppm) (Cameca, 2012). In fact, a number of EMPA equipment today can incorporate one or two others of the four major surface and ...

Introduction

Canada is among the leading nations with vast supply of low carbon energy sources. The country enjoys no and low carbon energy sources including hydropower, wind, biomass, nuclear power as well as power generated from the waves at the coastal regions. This implies that the energy supply in Canada considerably meets the demands in the community and outside the nation. Such steps make it possible to avoid reliance on the carbon emitting sources of energy that have in the recent years faced criticism from the public and regulatory agencies. However, even with the abundant supply of the no and ...

One of the most common environmental pollution observed in many parts of the world is the formation of haze. This phenomenon is predominantly visible in those geographies where the air pollution is on the higher side, which may be multiple times more than what has been believed to be safe. Essentially, haze which appears as a blanket of smoke over a wide area occurs when the tiny invisible pollutants suspended in the air absorbs and scatters sunlight thereby reducing the clarity of our vision to a great extent . Air pollution, the primary factor behind haze can be either natural ...

Industry Overview

In the present market, the automotive industry globally encompasses the prime manufacturers, Toyota, Volkswagen, GM, Honda, Ford, etc., all operating in the global competitive marketplace. Since the second half of the 1990s, it is understood that automobile industry’s globalization accelerated with the construction of highly significant overseas facilities and the establishment of acquisitions and mergers between the global automobile MNCs (Hiroaka, 2001 p.1). In the year 2015, sales of passenger cars globally reached 73.9 million vehicles and the total sales reached above 90 million. On the basis of current growth rate, the automobile industry is expected to grow ...

Introduction:

Rice has always been a staple crop in various nations worldwide, where most of the population around the world feed on it every day. Rice is also one of the top GHG contributory staple crop that exceeds that of the maize and wheat production (Linquist et al, 2012). Today, the environmental sustainability has made an impact to many sectors, especially the agricultural production. The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has been innovated to serve as one of the primary tools in the integral assessment for the environmental impacts of the production of various agricultural products that includes rice. The agricultural ...

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

The symptoms appearing as a result of Multiple sclerosis are believed to be a result of blockage in the conduction as a result of defects in the synaptic junctions of the nerves, the defects could be demyelination and inflammation of the nerves (Smith and MacDonald, 1999). There is focal demyelination of the nerves, where the myelin sheath is damages but the axonal continuity remains undisturbed. The difference between Wallerian degeneration and Multiple sclerosis lies in the fact that in the former one there is degeneration of the axon also. Other features that can be observed in case of multiple ...

A hydrogen car is a car that uses hydrogen as the source of driving power fuel. In such a car, the chemical energy stored in hydrogen is converted to mechanical energy which propels the car. This is done by burning the hydrogen in the internal combustion engine. It can also be done in a fuel cell where hydrogen is reacted with the oxygen to run the electric motor. Hydrogen fuel is not considered as an energy source but rather, an energy carrier since it doesn’t occur naturally. It must be made from other sources which include methane and other fossil ...

I. Introduction Human activities are causing the world to warm and the global average temperature is predicted to increase by 1.8-4.0C (3.2-7.2F) by the end of the century. (Griffin, 2009) These numbers might not seem that large but when you factor in the rate at which they are increasing, it almost becomes obvious that human contributed greenhouse gases are a huge contributing factor. Since the climate will continue to change for natural and humans activity reasons, it critical to understand the adaptations humans need to do as soon as possible. For certain, if oil production and oil consumption ...

Introduction

Automobile technology has managed to come a long way. A few decades ago, automobile makers were boasting about airbags being the latest state-of-the-art technology in car safety. Warning systems and collision avoidance have been the latest developments for car technology. Though it is not a new technology, reverse cameras are available with the cross-traffic warning systems for preventing drivers from reversing from their parking spot into the oncoming traffic. Again, the vehicle sensor technology has been used for detection and prevention from all-too-common dangerous situations. These technologies are perfect for ensuring individuals and families are kept safe. Also, technology has helped ...

Advanced countries have been on the fore front in advocating for Kyoto Protocol of 1997. In the USA, the Chicago Climate Exchange has been on the frontline as an operator of the emission trading scheme. The Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) is legal binding actually a first voluntary GHG reduction and also a trading system that aims to emit and offset projects in the Brazil and the North America. Such a scheme helps achieve reduction goals through a cost effective means and via trading emission allowances between the available participants. The Chicago Climate Exchange has proclaimed and described itself as the rules based ...

Introduction

Presently, pollution is one of the greatest concerns around the globe. Most of the countries throughout the world have formulated strict regulations in order to minimize pollution levels. In United States, California is the state that has emissions regulations of the highest strictness level. These regulations also include buses and trucks that are operating within California to be upgraded in order to reduce the level of emissions. This upgrade primarily consists of installing a fuel particulate matter filter known as PM filter. California has an independent regulatory board that makes regulations to control air pollution. The board is well known ...

Rationale

The Climate Change has been a hot issue since the end of the 20th Century. After several United Nations Conference on Environment and Development; governments signed a protocol in Kyoto, Japan that marked their commitments in saving the environment. The commitment is popularly known as the Kyoto Protocol. An article (UNFCCC, 2012) explains that the Kyoto Protocol binds the countries to reduce their carbon emissions and penalized violators thereof. Also, it was in this protocol that benchmarked the market-based mechanism on carbon trading that will offset the too much green house gases emission of a certain country.

After almost two decades ...

ABSTRACT

The research argues that although a gas flaring stoppage is not successfully in-place in Nigeria, fitting the appropriate technology with complementary economic and institutional factors can lead to near-zero or zero gas flaring. Nigeria is a developing country with a unique culture of many tribes and one of the largest growing urban populations in the world. Infrastructural, political and economical challenges to meeting the goal are introduced. Reinjection of gas back into wells is not available as an option to gas flaring because a large region for gas production is wetlands (Buzcu-Guven et al. 2012). Wetlands ...

Various concerns over the environment have led to the emergence of new technologies and products, which are not only fuel efficient, but also minimize harmful emissions without compromising with the performance, safety and cost . The electrification and hybridization of vehicles is a complex task, which involves challenges related to chassis design and layout, vehicle dynamics, system integration, power management and optimization. Since electric and hybrid vehicles are complex systems, the design requires the manufacturer to consider several aspects. While the technology used for propulsion in a number of modern vehicles is through an internal combustion engine, which makes ...

Question one

International treaties are an international agreement that were set up to deal with the climate change. They were adopted at the United Nations conference in the department of environment and development. It is called the Earth Summit which took place in 1992. The treaties are considered to have played a major role that lead to the existence of the Kyoto protocols. The Earth Summit has resulted in the creation of a variety of agreements for the protection of the environments. Australia stands out as the most active country in the ETS markets. The requirement to have electric generators ...

1. The HS2 Railway Network

On November 2013, the Government passed a hybrid bill to Parliament supporting the launch of Phase One of the High Speed Two (HS2) project (DfT 2013). Consultation ended in February 2014 and the Parliament is in the process of appointing an independent assessor to provide an outline of all issues surrounding the project. The HS2 project is a railway network that is part of the Coalition Agreement and the Department for Transport’s (DfT) business plan from 2010 until 2015. HS2 has two phases, which will be launched separately and thus, will be subjected to ...

Abstract

In the present climate of globalization and technology in the architectural textile field, there is an increasing demand for sustainability. This report will direct its attention toward the sustainability of textiles that has become a growing concern. There is a substantial amount of waste generated in the textile industry, as a result for cotton. Cotton is one of the most extensively used textiles in the production of architectural textiles. The quality that cotton possesses with regards to cultivation requires a substantial amount of pesticide. The conversion of cotton into fiber creates a great deal of interest with regards to its sustainability. Fibers such as ...

Virgin Group

Abstract Being a successful business with a long term growth potentiality is the most important objective of any business organization. Success of a business can be defined in many ways and there are a number of alternative notions of success that are commonly used by business analysts. The current dissertation explores four different notions of success and their limitations in the real world. The notions of success are explored in the context of one of the most successful conglomerates of the 20th century, Virgin Group. While the funding, profits, and management structure look into the internal aspects regarding the success of a business; ...

The world is currently facing numerous environmental challenges that are threatening the lives of humans and other living organisms on earth. Various movements and efforts have been started by government-and non-government organizations around the globe to either to mitigate these challenges or at least lessen their impact to humanity. Addressing these concerns is very important because everybody is affected by these problems. It is not only the country directly hit by these challenges.

The biggest problem among these challenges is the global warming and climate change. This phenomenon is a result of the activities of human that leads to ...

The U.S. Government’s and Individual Citizens Obligation in Reducing Nation’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The question on whether the United States government has an obligation to adopt policies that are designed to reduce the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions is of great controversy. This is due to the approach that is taken by different individuals to try and look into this question. The answers given by various personalities vary based on the approach that is taken towards this matter. This is despite the common knowledge that all individuals have a role in reducing greenhouse gas emission. This is ...

- Meaning of AQI and the Levels of Air Quality

- AQI is an indexing figure that reports the quality of air on a daily basis. AQI is able to tell the extent to which air is polluted and how such pollution can be hazardous to human body and the ecological life in general. There are six levels of air quality. These levels of air quality are shown the table below:

- The Meaning of BADOzone and its Riskiness in Children

- BADOzone is that region of the atmosphere that is in contact with the atmosphere thus ...

Slide 1: Introduction

The report discusses about Corporate social responsibility by analyzing the CSR strategy adapted by Tesco. The report would consider the CSR strategy from four perspective; Environmental considerations, Ethical leadership, Sustainable consideration and Laws and regulatory considerations.

Slide 2: CSR Strategy - Tesco

Environmental considerations Tesco has taken different steps to manage its environment. It has been highly focusing on reducing the carbon emission. The company has been involved in different projects related to reducing carbon emission. Moreover, it has been highly involved in creating awareness among not only suppliers but among consumers as well to reduce the usage of carbon. Because of its efforts ...

INTRODUCTION

The wider population and the government are aware that prompt action is necessary to lessen the human impact on the environment, which is the means to turn around the global climate changes as well as lessening the demands on natural resources. Much has been done concerning this issue but a lot more needs to be done in order to decrease consumption of resources and get better environmental management if we want to repeal the global climate change and spare some resources to the future generations. Humanity is running out of natural resources and the global climate change is not something ...

Hydrogen powered cars use a fuel cell to generate energy. They combine hydrogen that is stored in a tank and oxygen that comes from the air to form water and electricity. The chemical energy that is stored in the hydrogen is converted to mechanical energy which powers the car . Combustion engines on the other hand use hydrocarbon fuels to propel the car. The piston is pushed downwards by rotation of the camshaft which makes the intake valves to open up and in turn fills the chamber with fuel and oxygen. At this time the exhaust valves remain closed. The intake valves ...

An EMS controls the vehicle engine in response to both vehicle and engine inputs. It consists of an electronic control unit composed of a micro-processor with several electromechanical and electronic actuators and sensors. Sensor devices are used to monitor the vehicle engine and detect engine speed, lambda values, crank angle and other engine parameters. The electronic control unit determines the engine ignition time, the quantity of fuel and other engine parameters that keep the vehicle engine running. The ECU does this by use of input values that are calculated based on the inputs that originate from the sensors. Under this ...

Atmospheric carbon emissions in the United States have elicited a myriad debate on the effective policies, which should be enacted to save the economic global change. Proposed policies are essential curbing the menace. Primarily Energy efficiency policy is vital. The mentioned policy encompasses providing consumers with tools to effectively monitor and adjust their energy use. Notably, cap and trade system policy is also vital. The mentioned system employs financial inducement in encouraging reduction of carbon dioxide by companies. Here, a regulatory body set maximum annual limits of carbon emissions (Turk & Bensel, 2014). Also, a carbon tax policy connotes to a tax on ...

Product Transportation in Cairo

In business, a product entails something that has been /can be placed in the market for sale to meet the needs or wants of customers. Products can, therefore, imply merchandise or items sold by the retailers. The manufacturers buy products in the form of raw materials that they transform into finished products for sale. The Cairo economy is characterized by manufacturing and service industries whose products are diverse and produced in varied quantities and qualities. The General Authority for Investment and Free Zones, GIFA, identifies transportation of products as the major economic pillar of Cairo.Major modes of product transport in ...

Chen, Bingheng, et al. "Air pollution and health studies in China—Policy implications." Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association 61.11 (2011): 1292-1299. Web.

In this paper, researchers from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, noted that levels of air pollution in China are higher than most parts of the world. They reported that with rapid economic development, some types of air pollutants such as particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter ≤10 μm (PM10) and SO2 have been decreased due to controlling measures, whereas other types of air pollutants such as NO2 have been increased. Further studies ...

Management

There are several pertinent sustainability issues in a context of the logistics and supply chain management such as fossil fuel is used in order to generate the power for ensuring the smooth functioning of the supply chain, but it is resulting in the emission of dangerous carbon compounds. The carbon emission then paves the way to the destruction of the environment. Furthermore, the consumers are purchasing goods that have been sourced over the long distances, such goods, however, contain larger carbon footprints that are also contributing to the damage of the environment. Moreover, the distribution networks are not configured ...

1. Introduction

The worlds electricity generation is about 17, 450 Twh. The most of which comes from coal and 20% of which comes from gas, and 16% of which comes from nuclear and hydro each. The coal is the carbon di oxide emitting substance per Kwh. The other pollutants are at the high levels. This substance continues to dominate the market with low cost and high availability. This substance continues to dominate the market with low cost and the high availability. This affects are not going to reduce the emission amount. The future investment is always needed to save the environment ...

1. Introduction

During early days people do physical work to complete a job. The physical work made by the people made them tired and people time gets wasted. Let us take a construction work. The construction works involves major labors to construct a building, in early days people spends major time to construct a building. The labors have to give more energy to construct the building. Some of the labors even sacrificed their life by accident case inside the building. But today’s technology makes sure that the construction of any type of building can be modeled and executed within a year. Labor also ...

United States of America has used oil as its main source of energy for a long time but, it can emulate the Simso community project. This because, however, they have ready access to oil in the state, the oil is a major source of global warming that leads to climate change. The Simso community initially used electricity that was coming mainly from the mainland that was passing through a cable and generation coming from coal. This affects the atmosphere as carbon dioxide is generated through the process in tones. For example, each sassing into the atmosphere generates almost eleven tones on an ...

INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

The pollution control efforts can be traced back to ancient human history where pure drinking water was an area of serious interest. This further became essential especially after the industrial revolution to protect and promote the environment in which we live and work. Various issues including the cost factors have been considered while enacting the laws. The international laws on environment along with having the laws of the individual countries also have all the various treaties and conventions. Some of the important laws among them are customary international laws on trans boundary resource pollution, UN economic commission on long ...

Management

Introduction Harley Davidson is one of the leading manufacturers of heavyweight motorcycles across the globe. This company has two organizations under its banner – the Harley Davidson Financial Services and the Harley Davidson Motor Company. The main products of Harley Davidson Motor Company are general merchandise, apparel, riding gear, accessories, and motorcycle parts of Harley Davidson, touring, cruiser and customized heavyweight motorcycles. On the other hand, the Harley Davidson Financial Services provides retail and wholesale finance services, protection plans, extended services, insurance and credit card schemes to the riders and dealers of Harley Davidson in Canada, U.S.A. and ...

ABTRACT

The UK’s construction industry is dynamic and has adopted different house design models due to many factors including new requirements for sustainability, thermal and acoustic performance and environmental impacts. The need to conserve the environment while at the same timed improving the social characteristic of the built environment have direct impacts on the choice of constructional system. This paper explores the modular construction system used to construct a residential apartment in the neighborhood.

The UKs construction industry is advanced in terms of construction management and related construction dynamics. In this paper we are going to explore the construction ...

Question 1

The solar system is located in a spiral arm: Orion-cygnus arm. According to (Leong 5), it is a minor spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy some three thousand five hundred light-years (1100 parsecs) across and approximately ten thousand light years (3100 parsecs) in length. It is also known as local arm, Orion Bridge, local spur and Orion spur.

It is named for the Orion constellation, one of the prominent constellations of the northern hemisphere winter (southern hemisphere) (Leong 26).the brightest stars and numerous famous celestial objects of this constellation- Betelgeuse, Rigel, the stars of the Orion belt, the Orion ...

There are two main reasons why nuclear energy has been attractive in the discussions of global energy supply. One major reason is the problem of global warming which is the major cause of climate change. For the past 100 years, the earth’s temperature has been increasing due to the gradual increase of heat waves which were trapped in the atmosphere because of the large amounts of greenhouse gases (Cravens 8). There are many problems and treats that are associated with global warming such as societal, economic and environmental problems. Another main reason is the reduced dependency on fossil ...

Introduction

A Public good is that which is non-exclusive that is, it is available to all irrespective of who paid for it. Non-rivalry meaning that, the use of the good does not cause any rivalry amongst the users of the good. Free riding explains that the good is for the generally defined public and no specific owner thus, there are no means and end to privatize the good (Winston, 2006 p.23).

Roads to some extent are closing to be public goods as it satisfies the all the other characteristics except for non-rivalry. Reason being that when roads get congested rivalry ...

1.A.1. A newspaper columnist signs a contract with a newspaper chain. Several months later, she is offered a position with another newspaper chain at a higher salary. Because she would prefer making more money, she notifies the first chain that she is breaking her contract. The courts will decide the legality of her action. But what of the morality? Did the columnist behave ethically?

When a newspaper columnist signed a contract with a newspaper chain, she is bound by the terms and conditions of the agreement. Whatever is stated in the contract binds legally the columnist and the newspaper chain. If after several months later, another ...

Carbon dioxide is a naturally occurring gas which is produced by the plants, animals and microorganisms. This gas is continuously being exchanged between the atmosphere, land and ocean’s surface in a balanced way (Mader 2011).

Various human activities which began after the industrial revolution that took place in the 1800 has contributed significantly to the buildup of CO2 in the atmosphere. About 3 to 6% of the CO2 in the atmosphere is due to human activities. Although it is less when compared to the emission of CO2 by natural causes like volcanic eruptions, the balance of emission and absorption of ...

Introduction

Currently, coal-fired power plants account for more than 80% of carbon dioxide emissions in the electric power industry of the United States and 33% of all the carbon dioxide emissions in the United States. Consequently, reducing carbon dioxide emissions that come from the coal plants is the focus of most proposals that intend to cut on the greenhouse gas emission. The options to do this include capturing and sequestering carbon dioxide that emitted by the coal power plants, replacing the coal power plants with the low or zero carbon dioxide sources of power like the nuclear and wind energy.

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In the United States, power is generated from various sources. In 2014 alone, 4,093 billion KWh units were produced. The majority of these came from fossil fuels while renewable energy sources accounted for around 17%. The high percentage of fossil fuels used for electric power generation as compared to renewable energy sources leads to a more a pronounced environmental impact. The table below shows the percentage of the total power produced by the four major energy sources in 2014.

Negative effects of power production

Coal power production Coal is a fossil fuel that is combusted in steam boilers to generate steam for driving steam turbines. ...

Personal Ecological Footprint

The results for my ecological footprint are as follows:

1. If everyone lived the same lifestyle as me, the planet would require the regenerative capacity of 1.9 planets each year. 2. The comparison of my ecological footprint is that it takes 3.5 global hectares of the earth’s productive area to support my lifestyle. 3. The largest area of my footprint is taken up by food which is occupies 60% of my foot print. The second largest part is taken by goods which occupy 20% of the whole footprint. The third largest was shelter and mobility which ...

INTRODUCTION

The purpose of this report is to furnish the results of a state-of-the-art investigation of wind turbine systems, including a review of the theoretical premises of its operation.

Problem

Increasing energy crisis and global pollution make any investigation on wind energy very important, because wind energy has the possibility to reduce the above two problems. For example, the demand of electricity has increased very much throughout the world because of increased activity in industrial and digital sectors and that is causing very high fossil fuel emission, which has a direct link with global pollution. In this situation, wind energy brings high hopes of ...

Among the various issues faced by societies globally is the danger associated with the so-called global warming or climate change. Although often used interchangeably, global warming and climate change are two different scenarios that have synergistic relationship. Defined as the overall increase in the global temperature due to excessive accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, global warming differs from climate change which is defined as the abnormally drastic change in climate patterns which have started since the beginning of the 20th century. Despite their differences, global warming and climate change are often seen as two inseparable phenomena. The ...

Global warming has evolved into a demure problem in the present-day world. The problem is very serious, as it concerns a possible lift of temperature and climate alter. Climate warming is a slow and gradual upsurge in the medium temperature on our planet that there is currently. Climate warming is a fact, with which to argue is pointless, and it is therefore necessary to take a sober and objective approach to its understanding. The Earth is warming and this has a tragic effect on the glaciers of our planet. The temperature surges, the ice begins to melt, and the sea level begins to rise. This ...

Abstract

Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder characterized by distortion of reality, disturbances of thought and language, and withdrawal from social contact. It can also result in cognitive disturbances. Cerebellar dysfunction, movement problems, and postural control are also among important problems of schizophrenia. Various factors are involved in the development of schizophrenia. In these factors, hereditary characteristics, environment, and brain structure and function are found to have an important role. Medical imaging techniques such as positron emission tomography (PET), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can help in studying the disease. This paper deals with some important aspects of ...

Article Review

Abstract The article chosen deals with such terms as information assurance and information security. The considering terms are of great importance as in spite of the high level of technology development in modern society, all organizations and individuals aim to confidentiality and protection of any information. Information assurance focuses on integration of protection, detection and reaction to some unauthorized intrusions and guarantees protection. There is given a description of a wide variety of methods and measures for information security by means of information assurance. The purpose is to lower the risk connected with the usage, storage, or transmission of ...