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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Energy Impacts"”.
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Energy impacts of cloud computing trends
… on consumer electronics mainly focuses on the energy expenditures of individual electronic devices or on data centers, while consideration of the larger consumer electronics system is overlooked. This thesis fills the existing research gap by analyzing current hardware energy expenditures, …
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Understanding Wind Energy Impacts on Bats and Testing Reduction Strategies in South Texas
Negative impacts from burning fossil fuels, including climate change, are promoting an increase in development of renewable energy alternatives. In response, wind energy development is expanding at an exponential rate across the globe. However, wind energy development has long been known to …
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Safety, Operational, and Energy Impacts of In-Vehicle Adaptive Stop Displays Using Connected Vehicle Technology
Driving through an un-signalized intersection creates multiple opportunities for missed or misunderstood information. Stop signs, in particular, can be stolen, covered by vegetation, or rotated out of place, leading to an absence of information, contributing to inappropriate decision-making and …
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Cars on a diet : the material and energy impacts of passenger vehicle weight reduction in the U.S.
… total weight saved. In addition, the life-cycle energy impacts of using alternative lightweight materials, which tend to be more energy-intensive to process, must also be considered. In this dissertation, the energy implications of pursuing this lightweighting strategy are explored on a vehicle …
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The impacts of domestic media and ICT : a study of digital technology, energy consumption, data demand and everyday practice
The growth of domestic energy and emissions impacts correlates with growing digital technology (e.g. ICT, consumer electronics) domestication and usage. New and ‘smarter’ technology, cloud based services, and on-demand content are reshaping how, when and where digital technologies are drawn upon, …
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Impact and energy absorption of laminated and sandwich composites
… summarized for laminated composites after low-energy impacts.
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An LCA study comparing e-books read on an Apple Air iPad to printed books in South Africa
A number of studies assessing the environmental impacts of print media systems in comparison to digital media systems offering the same services have been conducted in United States of America (USA) or Sweden. The most notable are studies done by Kozak (2003), Gard & Keoleian (2003), Enroth (2009), …
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Properties and applications of double-skin building facades
… to design a new typology of buildings that are energy efficient, environmentally friendly, and architecturally sleek. The common elements are double-skin facades (DSF's) that employ sun shading and air movement between inner and outer glass membranes. The doubleskin or "airflow" facade is tied …
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SAGE-GROUSE AND ENERGY DEVELOPMENT: INTEGRATING SCIENCE WITH CONSERVATION PLANNING TO REDUCE IMPACTS
… large scale habitat ecology and response to energy development in the winter and nesting seasons using radio-marked individuals in the Powder River Basin, Montana and Wyoming, USA. Landscape scale percent sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) cover at 4-km2 was the strongest predictor of use by …
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SAGE-GROUSE AND ENERGY DEVELOPMENT: INTEGRATING SCIENCE WITH CONSERVATION PLANNING TO REDUCE IMPACTS
… large scale habitat ecology and response to energy development in the winter and nesting seasons using radio-marked individuals in the Powder River Basin, Montana and Wyoming, USA. Landscape scale percent sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) cover at 4-km2 was the strongest predictor of use by …
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Small scale embedded generation (SSEG) in Cape Town: a case study on the impact of Cape Town's SSEG regulation
… have taken a central role in discussions on energy transitions in the Global North, their implications in the Global South remain poorly documented. In South Africa, the convergence of a legacy energy system, supply issues, rising electricity prices, and growing environmental awareness as …
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Investigating Environmentally Sustainable Pathways for Passenger Vehicle Fleet in the UK
… are being made towards decarbonisation of energy sources, among which UK has placed itself at the forefront to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Transport is responsible for 26% of total GHG emissions, of which light duty vehicles represent >50%. Battery electric vehicles …
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Linking biophysical models and life cycle assessment to evaluate environmental tradeoffs of urban water infrastructure design
… Clean, plentiful water drives our food and energy production, provides transport, and keeps humans and the environment healthy. Integrated urban water modelling and improved geospatial databases are allowing water management researchers to analyze the effects of process decisions in the …
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Shock-wave and high strain-rate phenomena in matter: modeling and applications
… of dynamic events, such as high velocity or high energy impacts and detonation of explosives. In these events, usually, both high compression and expansion are involved and it is necessary to know physical, mechanical and thermodynamic properties of involved materials in wide ranges of densities, …
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Impactos del hidrógeno verde como fuente de energía alternativa en el SITP de Bogotá
El transporte, tanto a nivel global como a nivel local, es el sector con el mayor consumo de energía, siendo su principal fuente los combustibles fósiles que impactan negativamente al medio ambiente y a la salud de los ciudadanos. A razón de ello, surgió la necesidad de empezar a investigar nuevas …