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Showing 1 to 20 of 267 for “"clean-energy"”.
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Boost Matrix Converters in Clean Energy Systems
… to the existing solutions in residential wind-energy systems, where a low-voltage variable-speed generator feeds power to the higher-voltage fixed-frequency grid.Comprehensive analytical derivations and simulation results were carried out to investigate the operation of the proposed converters. …
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New venture commercialization of clean energy technologies
Clean energy technologies lower harmful emissions associated with the generation and use of power (e.g. CO2) and many of these technologies have been shown to be cost effective and to provide significant benefits to adopters. Examples of clean energy technologies include renewable and/or efficient …
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Clean energy investments in an uncertain future
The energy sector faces a multitude of challenges related to climate change and energy security. These challenges will likely prompt considerable changes in the coming decades, including significant investment and new market design. To help fulfill multiple goals and limit the necessary tradeoffs …
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Designing Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials for Electrocatalytic Clean Energy Conversion
The development of efficient and clean energy conversion technologies is a key issue for the sustainability of energy technologies. Hydrogen is one of the best fuels for clean energy systems as its combustion product is only water. Therefore, the development of cost-effective energy conversion …
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Planning ahread [sic] : the emergence of clean energy technology
… To facilitate the solar industry and emerging clean energy technologies, this thesis project proposes an incubator for start-up companies involved with silicon-based technologies, thin-film technologies, or organic PVs to occupy and invest in. The premise of the program is to provide a series …
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Modeling sustainable mineral supply pathways to meet clean energy demand
The adoption of renewable energy technologies hinges on the availability of many critical minerals. To meet the large demand for critical minerals, it is vital to scale up mineral supply in an environmentally and socially responsible way while maintaining low materials costs for key technologies. …
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Iceland : transition to clean energy, limitations of the electric transmission system
Tilgangur verkefnisins er að reyna að kortleggja hvaða áhrif orkuskipti í samgöngum og iðnaði munu hafa á flutningskerfi raforku í framtíðinni. Skilgreindar voru tvær sviðsmyndir þar sem mismunandi stig orkuskipta var skilgreint og orkuþörfin metin fyrir hvora sviðsmynd. Út frá orkuþörfinni var …
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In Situ Electron Microscopy for Characterization and Development of Clean Energy Nanomaterials
… revolution, the hunt has been on for larger, cleaner, and more efficient energy systems. This growth has been met primarily by combustion of oil, coal, and gas; yielding an enormous amount of harmful emissions in the form of carbon nanoparticulates (i.e. soot). To mitigate the production of …
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Modeling metropolis : clean energy guidelines for neighborhood design in rapidly urbanizing China
… for planners and designers to create a more energy efficient city form. What is required is an effective method of accurately predicting, during the design process, patterns of neighborhood energy consumption. This thesis presents guidelines for doing this. When partnered with the Energy …
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The Fusion Enterprise Paradox: The Enduring Vision and Elusive Goal of Unlimited Clean Energy
… of the unfulfilled utopian vision of fusion energy that has endured for more than sixty years.
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Collective Bargaining to Community Benefits: Leveraging Organized Labor to Advance an Equitable Clean Energy Transition
… in understanding how community benefits in the clean energy transition can expand opportunities for workers and communities of color, particularly within the context of Community Benefits Programs (CBP) with a focus on the role of organized labor. The federal climate legislation such as the …
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The form of clean energy neighborhoods : how it is guided and how it could be
The subject of "clean energy city" has attained increased attention in recent year. However, almost all studies to date about "clean energy" are either at the building scale or the regional scale and little touches the real estate development scale, or in other words the neighborhood scale. The …
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The Policy, People, and Place Impacts of Mining for the Clean Energy Transition in the US
To meet the growing demands of the energy transition, we need to rapidly deploy mines to supply the minerals for clean energy technologies. This presents a set of challenges, or tensions, at the energy transition level, policy level, and mine level. This thesis seeks to answer two questions: What …
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Air quality impacts and benefits under U.S. policy for air pollution, climate change, and clean energy
… regions and income groups within a model of the energy system and economy. This new modeling framework represents how climate change and clean energy policy affect pollutant emissions throughout the economy, and how these emissions then affect human health and economic welfare. This methodology …
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Familial variation in personal PM2.5 exposure within a rural Rwandan community pre and post clean energy intervention
… where biomass fuel was the primary household energy source, before and during a whole-household energy intervention. LPG stoves were used to replace traditional biomass burning stoves, and solar-based electric lighting replaced traditional kerosene lamps. Personal PM2.5 exposures were assessed …
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Productive use of energy in women-owned enterprises: A multi-disciplinary approach towards understanding clean energy access in Africa
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Technical and Commercial Feasibility Assessment of Nuclear Microreactors as a Clean Energy Source for Data Centers and Mining Sites
… are 1-10MWe stand-alone, plug-and-play energy platforms that can supply electricity and heat from a small footprint. Factory-assembled and factory-fueled, they are compact enough to fit within ISO standard shipping containers. Proposed to be used as a co-located source of clean energy, …
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Sustainable Homes for All: Designing a Clean Energy Incentive for Boston’s Section 8 HCV Landlords to Improve Tenant Quality of Life
… emissions. Low-income housing is particularly energy inefficient, contributing to harmful environmental outcomes and health and financial challenges for tenants. The Boston Housing Authority (BHA) can play a central role in residential decarbonization for low-income residents because it owns …
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An explorative study of the synergy between social enterprises and local micro-entrepreneurs in the provision of off-grid clean energy access
Alleviating energy poverty requires innovative and sustainable business models for delivering energy access. Social enterprises have entered off-grid clean energy access markets, pioneering innovative energy access business models, many of which involve the participation of local …
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The Economics of the Clean Energy Transition – An Empirical Analysis of Novel Policies for the Development and Deployment of Climate Change Mitigation Technologies
… key role in accelerating this transition. As the energy sector is responsible for around two thirds of global emissions, understanding the effectiveness of existing and novel policies for the development and deployment of climate change mitigation technologies is critical. This thesis is oriented …
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