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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Before the Wind"”.
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New England Slave Trader: The Case of Charles Tyng
… Tyng has been heralded as an American hero after the posthumous publication of his memoir, <em>Before the Wind: The Memoir of an American Sea Captain, 1808-1833</em>, in 1999. Recent research involving British Treasury report books from the nineteenth century suggest otherwise – that Tyng actively …
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The Importance of Photoevaporation in the Evolution of Protoplanetary Discs
Protoplanetary discs consist of gas and dust - the remnants of the star formation process - found around stars in the first few million years of their life. Photoevaporation, whereby high-energy radiation from the central star heats disc material causing it to flow away in a wind, is one process …
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Development of a scaled doubly-fed induction generator for assessment of wind power integration issues
Years of experience have been dedicated to the advancement of thermal power plant technology, and in the last decade the investigation has focused on the wind energy conversion system (WECS). Wind energy will play an important role in the future of the energy market, due to the changing climate and …