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(electromotive force), 98 efficiency, 102 electrolyte, 97 energy density, 102 flexibility, 96 lead-acid, 97 loss, 98 materials, 102 membrane, 101 metal, 107 oil, 102 166 Index recharge, 132 rechargeable, 97 storage, 96, 120 BBC, 13 Bear Stearns, 5 beholder, 8 Bell, Ian, 12 Betz, Albert, 53 bio-fuel crops, 131 sea-weed, 137 biosphere, 138 Blair, A., 15, 16 Boeing 747, 131 Boycott, Rosie, 13 Brazil, 11, 20 BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China), 20 brine, 87 Bristol Channel, 64 bromine, 101 Brown, Gordon, 16 Burns, Rabbie, 10 business, 7, 10, 19 C cable, 38 buried, 39 overhead, 39 undersea, 40 cadmium, 100 calculator, 129 Calhoun, John B., 9 California, 75 Canada, 3, 10, 16, 46, 101 cancer, 116 capacitor, 107, 108, 111, 123 capacitance, 40 ceramic, 109 dielectric, 108, 110 electrochemical, 110, 111 electrode, 107 electrolytic, 110, 111 energy, 101, 107, 111 capacity, 123 capillary, 106 carbon, 3, 52, 103 capture, 103 carbon dioxide, 1, 143 carbon monoxide, 95, 103 CO 2 , 16, 103 credits, 16 emissions, 16, 133 fibre, 54 greenhouse gas, 2, 7, 8, 12, 15, 17, 48, 126, 133, 134, 139, 143 pollution, 142 sinks, 131 trading, 7 Caribbean, 2 Carnot, 36, 37 Carnot cycle, 36 cast iron, 95 cathode, 104 Central America, 75 chairman, 20 channel, 40, 62 Chernobyl, 116 Chihuahuan, 73 China, 4, 10, 16, 20, 48, 77 circuit bulbs, 119 chargers, 119 digital, 20 earth, 119 electrical pendulum, 30, 107 filter, 107 output terminal, 34, 69 resonant, 30, 107 switch, 99, 119 transmission, 40 tunable filter, 30 climate, 1 accident, 138 aerosols, 134 carbon pollution, 1 change, 15 climatic model, 3 CO 2 absorption, 2 cyclones, 2 equable, 138 forcing, 3 runaway, 138, 142 scientists, 15 stabilization bill, 143 tipping point, 146 unpredictability, 6 Climate Change Fund, 142 climatologist, 2 clockwork, 119, 129 C-magnet, 31 CNN, 7 coast coastal area, 56, 62 coastline, 78, 126 dwelling, 3 collectors, 58, 70 colleges, 18 Index 167 combined cycle, 37 combustion, 36, 72 commerce banking, 138 BAU (business-as-usual), 15, 47, 79, 117, 125, 131, 132, 145 credit, 5, 6 credit crunch, 138 debt, 5 interest, 5 market, 138 money, 144 commerceTEQ (tradable energy quotas), 7 communication, 20, 134 community, 4, 15, 37, 80, 121 compressed air, 85 aquiver, 87 caverns, 86 compressor, 86 gas, 86 gas pressure, 86 geology, 87 Germany, 85 isothermal, 86 leakage, 87 mines, 87 solution mining, 87 USA, 85 compressor, 133 computer, 134 conductor, 31, 39, 111 conducting wires, 29, 39 copper, 32 electrical conductivity, 38 electrical resistivity, 38 losses, 39 ohmic loss, 34, 38, 40 ohms, 34 perfect, 39 resistive loss, 30, 35 semi-, 66 skin effect, 38, 73 super-, 91 consumer, 144 consumerism, 15 demand, 62 electrical gadgets, 81 electronics, 66 convection, 46 conversion efficiency, 37, 53 converters, 141 copper, 27, 34, 39, 104 coriolis, 63 corona, 39 covalent, 109 Cruachan, 50, 83 cryogenic, 132 C-shaped, 31 current AC, 28, 119 ampere, 29 DC, 105 direct current, 28 free electrons, 39 inverters, 60 cylinder, 61, 72, 87 D Dawkins, Richard, 23, 24, 25 decouple, 55 demand, 125 commerce, 125 domestic, 125 energy, 127 industry, 125 transport, 125 democratic levers, 144 mandate, 14 nation, 146 Denial Industry, 8 Denmark, 12 density air, 53 energy, 83, 100, 106, 110, 131 fresh water, 51 ion, 101 magnetic flux, 32 power, 39, 47, 69, 71, 79 salt water, 58, 64 steel, 90 desert, 70, 72 diesel engine, 72 digital electronics, 134 digital radio, 30 dipole, 109 distilled water, 100 distribution, 37, 41, 44, 73, 79, 99 diurnal, 62 diversification, 126 Djibouti, 75 drag, 25, 35, 132 drive shaft, 49, 54 dynamics, 46, 144 dynamo, 6 dysfunctional, 126 dystopia, 11 168 Index E Earth Gaia, 9, 14 Gaia hypothesis, 9 life support, 45 planet, 4, 8, 12, 14, 47, 72, 126, 133 Earth’s atmosphere, 7, 65 axis, 46 cone, 47 disc, 65 surface, 65 Earth Summit, 143 East River, 64 eccentricity, 3 ecogrid, 118, 119, 120, 121, 138, 139, 140 building, 145 circuit model, 119 construction, 133, 141 eco-war, 139 engineering, 143 high voltage, 120 infrastructure, 139 statictics, 119 storage, 120 ecological, 131, 139 ecology, 1 desert, 73 ecosystem, 6 footprint, 145 route map, 142 economy Chicago School, 4 collapse, 145, 146 computer model, 144 emergency, 138 energy, 6, 47, 80 GDP (gross domestic products), 20, 127 global, 142 growth, 74, 77, 130, 138, 142, 145 implications, 141 law of economics, 4 LTG (Limits to Growth), 6 market, 4, 7, 13, 17, 80, 138 market friendly, 7, 16 monetarism, 6 monetary system, 5 national, 5 order, 138 public sector, 43 recession, 5, 6, 14 secular society, 4 social cost, 14 taxation, 142 UK, 4 Voodoo economics, 4 wartime, 138 eddy current, 35, 92 education, 18 efficiency energy, 14 enforcement, 127 generator, 33, 35 programmes, 7, 129 electric, 127 electric charge attraction, 26, 28, 96, 108 coulomb, 29 negative charge, 108 particle, 28, 96 positive charge, 109 repulsion, 27 electrical appliance, 43, 127 cooker, 43 dishwasher, 43 fridge, 43 kettle, 28 washing machine, 43 electrical power, 10, 17, 27, 31, 41, 67, 73, 74, 84, 116 electrical supply, 47, 95, 99 electrical transmission, 37, 40, 73, 79, 99 electricity, 42, 44, 73 current, 27, 29, 32, 34, 38 DC, 28 earth, 119 electric fire, 31 electric train, 35 gadgets, 129 grid, 37, 57 grid loss, 50, 55 grid steel core, 39 grid voltage, 38, 69, 99 interconnection, 30, 40 leakage, 42, 87, 88 production of, 77 pylon, 39, 40, 141 reactive power, 39, 40, 73 savings, 127 transformer, 35, 38, 40, 52, 61, 69, 71 transformer park, 38 users, 43 electrochemical, 97, 98 electrolyser, 104 electrolysis, 132 Index 169 electrolyte, 110 electromagnetic theory, 45 electromagnetic waves, 28, 38, 46, 67 electromagnetism, 29 wave penetration, 39 electron spin, 31 electronics, 43, 55, 129 broadband, 134 communications, 134, 135 computer, 134 conferencing, 134 devices, 127, 129, 135 digital, 134 imaging, 135 systems, 30 electrons, 27, 31, 66, 97, 108 electrostatics, 29 electrostatic field, 29, 108 hair, 27 inverse square law, 29 permittivity, 38, 108, 109, 110 plastic, 101 potential, 29 silk, 27 electro-technical, 17 Empire Exhibition, 135 end users, 42 endothermic, 105 energy, 128 chemical, 93 consumption, 127 conversion, 67, 143 elastic band, 26 heat, 25, 36, 71, 93 joules, 24 kinetic, 24 largesse, 143 MES (magnetic energy storage), 118 molecular, 24, 28, 109, 111 potential, 24, 26 power absorbed, 25 storage, 118 transference, 30 transition, 145 vibrational, 34 work, 63 engine, 36 engineer, 18, 19, 141 professional, 140 engineering breakthrough, 126 civil, 20, 139 courses, 139 decline, 20 degrees, 20 Engineering Council, 20 graduates, 18 image, 19 limitations, 126 logic, 121, 139 macroscopic, 144 mechanical, 34, 113 nano-engineering, 144 project, 121 social, 144 students, 139 study, 19 trends, 134 way forward, 139 world, 144 England, 8, 64 environment, 10, 11, 12, 36, 43, 46, 58, 115 damage, 44 degradation, 126 environmentalists, 12 safe, 126 environmental, 34 Eocene, 16 Ethiopia, 75 ethos, 19 ethylene, 110 eureka, 19 Europe, 2, 13, 18, 42, 51, 87 EU Emissions, 16 European Union, 16 eutectic, 95 explosion, 92 extinction, 3, 9, 16 eye, 10 F factory-built, 139 Fairbanks, 101 fallout, 117 Fannie Mae, 5 Farad, 108 Faraday, Michael, 4, 29, 31, 35, 98, 112 feedback, 145 feed-forward, 145 Fermi, Enrico, 42, 140 fertilizer, 103 fibre-glass, 54 finance, 7 financiers, 5 170 Index fish, 53 Flannery, Tim, 14 flywheel, 89 axis, 89, 90 bearing, 91 clutch, 91 containment, 89, 92 disc, 88, 89 explosion, 92, 120 farm, 91, 93 friction, 91 high speed, 90, 93 inertia, 89 material, 88, 89, 90 rundown, 92 sensors, 91 shaping, 89 forest, 131 formula, 51, 62, 89 fossil fuel, 3, 6, 7, 8, 12, 14, 15, 17, 20, 21, 25, 47, 48, 50, 52, 55, 78, 80, 84, 88, 94, 99, 104, 118, 125, 126, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 136, 137, 138, 139, 142, 143, 144 capital, 139 coal, 1, 6, 20, 33, 36, 47, 103, 104, 129 combustion, 131 gasoline, 37 limit, 142 methane, 3, 95, 103 natural gas, 80, 82 oil, 80 oil deposits, 4 oil wells, 12, 103 permits, 142 reserves, 125 run out, 139 smoke, 3 France, 20, 44, 63, 74, 114, 116 Freddie Mac, 5 free market, 141 frequency, 2, 30, 34, 40, 50, 84 friction, 24, 35 forces, 46 frictional effects, 24 frictional losses, 40 frictionless, 36, 112 Friedman, Milton, 4 fuel cell, 97, 101 fusion, 94 future, 138 G gamma, 117 gas, 72 generator, 29, 32 armature, 32, 33, 50 bearing losses, 35 electrical generator, 30, 92 electrical machines, 29, 33 emf (electromotive force), 32, 98 mechanical losses, 35 phase, 33 rotational speed, 49 single phase, 33 stator, 32 stray losses, 35 synchronous, 50, 54 three phase, 34, 40, 69 geo-engineering, 143 geology, 120 geometry, 47, 79 geothermal, 46, 75, 76, 78, 79 geo-thermal power binary plant, 76 borehole, 76 condenser, 76 cooling tower, 76 granite strata, 75 magma, 75 ring of fire, 75 secondary fluid, 76 sources, 75, 76, 79 tectonic plate, 75 thermal gradient, 75 Germany, 12, 20, 85, 90, 100, 114 glacier, 3 Glasgow, 135 glass, 69, 108 global heating, 138 global market, 7, 14, 16 global politics G6, 20 G8, 15, 16 intergovernmental, 17 IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), 17 Kyoto, 7, 16 Kyoto Protocol, 7, 16 global warming, 1 globe, 1, 144 Glomfjord, 106 Gobi, 72 government executive, 139 Index 171 graduates, 19, 20 gravity, 24, 26 arc, 23 cricket ball, 26, 29 gravitational acceleration, 24, 27, 58 gravitational force, 26, 27, 46, 67 Newton, 23, 32 pendulum, 23 trajectory, 26 Great Basin, 73 Great Sandy, 72 Great Wall, 141 green, 116 greenhouse gas, 139 ships, 136 Greenland, 3 green-wash, 77 grid, 118 cable, 141 pylon, 141 gyrobus, 89 H habitat, 9, 146 harbour, 65 headlight, 70, 71 headset, 136 health, 4, 117 heat engine, 36 piston, 72 helium, 136 Herald, newspaper, 12, 20, 135 Hillman, Mayer, 135 Hindenburg, 132, 137 hinge, 24 holiday, 136 holography, 136 homes, 43 hothouse, 7, 16 household, 42 human, 12, 135, 145 belief systems, 146 family size, 146 footprint, 145 history, 138 humanity, 6, 9, 74, 77, 131, 139 over-population, 145 progress, 138 species, 146 welfare, 145 Hunterston, 83 Huntorf, 87, 88 HVDC (high voltage direct current), 85, 121 hydrate, 94 hydraulic, 55 hydrocarbon, 103 hydrogen, 102 bond, 110 cell, 104 cell efficiency, 105 cell overload, 106 compressed, 132 compressed gas, 106 electrodes, 104 electrolysis, 103, 104 energy carrier, 103 energy density, 100, 106 energy resource, 103 filter press cell, 105 from oil, 103 fuel cell, 136, 137 gas envelope, 137 lift gas, 136 liquid, 106, 131 metallic hydride, 106 PEM (proton exchange membrane), 104 production, 103 reforming, 103 stations, 133 storage, 106, 119 tank cell, 105 transport, 106 water-gas shift, 103 hydro-power, 10, 48, 50, 53, 55 artificial reservoir, 48 Aswan dam, 48, 51, 62, 78 Ben Cruachan, 50, 83 dams, 52 Europe, 83 head, 49 hydro-electric, 8, 10, 13, 46, 50, 52, 53, 63, 82, 85 hydro-scheme, 9, 10, 53 hydro-systems, 11 Kaplan wheel, 49, 59 Loch Awe, 83 Pelton wheel, 49, 50 penstock, 49 reservoir, 40, 48, 53, 59, 63, 82, 85, 87, 137 sites, 78 valley, 52 hydroxyl, 104 172 Index I Iberia, 74 ice core, 2 record, 2 sheet, 3 Iceland, 75 Illinois, 57 image processing, 20 India, 4, 10, 16, 20, 48, 72, 77 Indonesia, 75 inductance, 112 induction, 60 coil, 30 emf, 107 inductor, 30, 31, 107 industrial, 6, 16 industrial revolution, 10 industry, 43 Indy Mac, 5 infra-red, 47 insulator glass, 108 polyester, 54 silica, 27 intermittency, 81, 119 intermittent, 55, 80, 82, 84, 118, 120, 126 internal combustion, 36, 72, 100 internet, 134 inverter, 121 ion, 97, 104 isothermal, 105 Itaipu Dam, 11 Italy, 20, 64, 83 J Japan, 18, 20, 75, 85, 87, 100, 102, 114 jet aircraft, 54 journal, 7 junkies, 13, 136 K Kamchatka, 75 Katrina, 2, 4 Kazakhs, 73 Keiller, Bob, 21 Kelvin, Lord, 25, 93 Kenya, 75 Kevlar, 90 Keynes, J.M., 144 Kyoto, 142 Kyoto2, 143 L La Rance, 63 labourer, 141 laggard, 61 lake, 46 Lake Nasser, 51 land, 47 landscape, 9, 12, 69, 144 laser, 107 leadership, 144 lecture theatre, 23 lens, 70 levers democratic, 144 market, 144 levitation, 91 lifestyle, 139 light absorbed, 67 bulbs, 41, 119 fluorescent lighting, 43 lighting, 33, 41, 43, 74, 99, 127 photon, 67 radiant flux, 47 radiation, 2, 45, 77, 79, 115, 116, 117 Snell’s laws, 70 ultra-violet, 47 lightning, 28 bolt, 28 flash, 28 literature, 14, 65, 73, 102, 123, 127 lithium, 100 load centre, 37 locomotive, 89 logic, 140 London, 16, 134 Lorentz force, 31, 91 Los Alamos, 114 Lovelock, James, 1, 9, 14, 125 low-grade, 37 lunar cycle, 63, 65 M MacCracken, Michael C., 14 Machiavelli, 144 [...]... Pacific Plate, 75 Pandora, 52 paradigm shift, 18 paradox, 146 Paraguay, 11 Pascal, 86 patent, 137 pentamaran, 137 people-movers, 134 Philippines, 75 phosphorus, 103 photograph, 9 physical constant, 38 physics, 7 piano, 42 pin-ball machine, 34, 66 Plante, Gaston, 97 platinum, 104 polar, 108 , 109 political, 8, 116, 121, 141 political classes, 13 politician, 13 pollution, 144 polyolefin, 101 population,... 72 sound, 59 space, 43 space debris, 47 Spain, 60, 74 speed, 49 Sputnik, 141 Stal Laval, 85 state-of-the-art, 123 statistics, 20, 119 steam, 89 Stewardship, 9 stiffness, 91 stored energy, 82 base load, 82, 84 flywheel, 123 massive storage, 81, 82 mechanisms, 93 mediating technology, 81 storage systems, 140 storm, 58 Strait of Messina, 64 Strangford Narrows, 64 stratosphere, 13 stream-lining, 54 students,... 18, 64, 75 Newtonian, 46 Niagara Falls, 46 nickel, 100 , 104 Nile, 51 Nimbyism, 56 niobium, 113 Nissum Bredning, 59 nitrate, 95 nitrogen, 103 non-polluting, 57 North East Passage, 3 North Sea, 59 North West Passage, 3 Northern Rock, 5 Norway, 10, 106 nuclear base load, 79, 128, 130 bomb, 115 containment, 115 coolant, 116 fission, 116, 117 fusion, 13, 79, 103 , 126, 143 material, 115 moderator, 115 power,... Manukau, 65 marine, 63 mass, 46, 47, 86 mass media, 8 mathematics, 19 Max-Planck-Institut, 90 Maxwell, James Clerk, 10, 23 McIntosh, 85, 88 McKinsey Institute, 130 Mediterranean Sea, 73 meltdown, 116 metal, 6, 27, 100 , 104 , 116 Meteorological Office, 15 methanation, 95 Mexico, 56, 72, 75 Michigan, 42, 102 microwave, 43 frequencies, 30 millennium, 3 mineral, 6 mirror, 39 mobile phone, 4 modernisation, 53,... 62 tidal flows, 62 tidal range, 63 tidal variation, 46 timescale, 48 tin, 112 titanium, 103 , 113 townscape, 136 transition, 85, 138, 139, 144 transmission HVDC, 73 loss compensation, 73 underground, 39, 73 undersea, 39, 73 transport, 106 air travel, 132 airship, 136 BAU scenario, 131 car, 131 city cars, 136 consumption, 131 emissions, 133 infrastructure, 130, 131 jet, 131 local, 136 private car, 131... 87, 100 , 102 , 114, 116, 127 Utopian, 9 Uyghurs, 73 177 V vacuum, 24, 29, 112, 114 vanadium, 101 vaporisation, 94 vegetation, 52 vehicle, 140 velocity, 24, 49, 58 virtual cocoon, 135 virtual reality, 135 cities, 136 headset, 136 holiday, 136 tourism, 136 virtual world, 135 viscous, 47 vlf (very low frequency), 30 voltage, 29 voter, 144 W Waitemata, 65 wastage, 44, 53, 83, 120 watch, 129 water, 109 water... 178 ramp, 59 Salter duck, 59 secondary waves, 62 snake, 61 surface waves, 46, 57 terminators, 59 tethered, 61 throat, 59 water column, 51, 60 Wave Dragon, 59 wave energy, 58, 137 wavelength, 30, 41, 57, 58 wealth, 5 weather, 1 hurricane, 2, 4 thunderstorm, 28 wilderness, 9 Wilhelmsen, Wallenius, 137 wind farm, 12, 120 wind power deep sea, 56, 126, 143 drag, 54 farm, 140 feathered blades, 54 gear train,... 80, 99, 103 , 116, 118, 126, 137, 141 Sweden, 10 Switzerland, 75, 83, 89, 127 synchronisation, 41 T Techno-fix, 13 technology, 12, 84, 86, 88, 94, 97, 103 , 108 , 113 television, 13, 19, 20, 23, 30 Teller, Edward, 128 temperature, 47, 114 degrees, 36 Ter-Gazarian, A. , 119 terminal, 41, 98, 107 , 143 Thar, 72 thermal storage, 93 containment, 95 latent, 93, 94, 95 materials, 94 sensible, 93 thermodynamics,... Maglev, 91 magnet, 31, 82, 91 core loss, 34, 35 energy, 30, 112 field, 30, 31, 38, 54, 111, 113 flux, 32, 35, 91 iron, 31 permanent, 31, 55, 91 permeability, 38 pole, 31, 32, 33 shielding, 113 soft iron, 35 stack, 33, 38 stray fields, 120 tesla, 32 magnifying glass, 69 mains electricity, 33 manganese, 104 Manhattan, 42 mankind, 146 Manning, Aubrey, 8 manpower, 21, 74, 134, 140, 142 manual, 7 Manukau,... Smith, Adam, 5 smog, 12 smoke, 66 society, 4, 6, 10, 19 Sod’s law, 146 sodium, 100 software, 20 solar farm, 12, 120 solar heat, 2 solar power, 12, 13, 73, 130 control, 140 conversion efficiency, 71, 72 CSP (concentrated solar power), 57, 66, 69 CSP farms, 70 CSP topologies, 70 CSP trough, 70 electronic tracking, 70 Europe, 73 farm, 140 genset, 140 heliostat, 72 insolation, 65 irradiance, 65 land area, . 38, 110 ammonia, 103 Ampere, 29 Andes, 75 Angier, Natalie, 42 anode, 104 Antarctica, 3, 9, 36 antenna aerial, 30 cone, 59 appliances pump, 43 Arabia, 65, 72 Arctic, 4, 16, 108 Arctic. http://www.which.co.uk/news/2008/09/nissan-to-launch-solar-powered-city-car-156075.jsp [17] Airship of the Future. Aeroscraft Corp., 2008 (www.aeroscraft.com) [18] Dossas, V. and Kraft, C., Hydrogen lighter-than-airship. US Patent. oxygen, 3, 27, 103 P Pacific Ocean, 25, 75 Pacific Plate, 75 Pandora, 52 paradigm shift, 18 paradox, 146 Paraguay, 11 Pascal, 86 patent, 137 pentamaran, 137 people-movers, 134 Philippines,