Concentrating Solar Power (CSP, aka Solar Thermal Electric Power) comprises three system architectures: line focus (parabolic trough and linear Fresnel), point focus central receiver (power towers), and point focus, distributed receiver (dish Stirling). In all of these technologies, solar energy is collected, converted to thermal energy, and used to drive ...
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Transportation in a Climate-Constrained WorldTransportation consumes two-thirds of the world's petroleum and has become the largest contributor to global environmental change. Most of this increase in scale can be attributed to the strong desire for personal mobility that comes with economic growth. This talk will cover the past and future travel demand; the influence ...
Benjamin Dean Lecture - The New Universe and The Human FutureIn the centuries since Newton, scientifically minded people have thought of Earth as a lonely rock orbiting an average star in a universe where no place is special. But modern cosmology has now given us a completely new picture of the universe based on dark matter, dark energy, and the ...
In his book The Wild Trees, investigative journalist and gifted storyteller Richard Preston lifts us into the high canopy of the world's tallest trees, the coast redwood, Sequoia sempervirens. His slide presentation introduces Steve Sillett and Marie Antoine, scientists who found an unexplored, hauntingly beautiful new world hundreds of feet ...
