A new £2.5 million ($3.2 million) project, led by theUniversity of Southamptonand the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), aims to transform our understanding of how the ocean “breathes,” storing heat and greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Ocean scientists will deploy sensors onboard ...
What does it mean to be green? “Green” is more than just a color. It also means taking special steps to protect the environment—the water, the land, and the air we breathe. Why green? Plants are green, and without them the earth wouldn’t be such a lovely home for us human ...
Nuclear energy has been proposed as an answer to the need for a clean energy source as opposed to CO2-producing plants. Nuclear energy is not necessarily a clean energy source. The effects nuclear energy have on the environment pose serious concerns that need to be considered, especially before...
According to some estimates, there's enough heat in the upper layers of the oceans to meet humankind's energy needs hundreds of times over. [1] Sounds great! So... how exactly does it work? Let's take a closer look!Photo: There's a huge amount of energy trapped in the oceans. ...
Guest Post by Wim Röst ABSTRACT Water, H2O, determines the ‘General Background Temperature’ for the Earth, resulting in Hothouse and Ice House Climate States. During geological periods the movement of continents changes the position of continents
Greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, trap heat in the atmosphere and direct part of this back toward the surface. This heat cannot penetrate into the ocean itself, but it does warm the cool skin layer, and the level of this warming ultimately controls the temperature gradient in the lay...
Active stall control- The blades in this type of power-control system are pitchable, like the blades in a pitch-controlled system. An active stall system reads the power output the way a pitch-controlled system does, but instead of pitching the blades out of alignment with the wind, it pi...
The origin of life on the earth. Pre-reading Nearly everybody has this or that puzzles: How do human beings come into being? How does the earth come into being? Do you know any ancient idea about the beginning of the universe? Big Bang Skimming How many parts can this text be divided...
Greenhouse gases such as CO2 occur naturally in the atmosphere. That is a good thing because otherwise, it would be much colder on earth. Greenhouse Re
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