Water, despite often scarcity, is considered a renewable resource. Renewable resources are resources that replenish at reasonable rates to keep pace with human consumption. Water is renewable because it is recycled in reasonably short periods of time, and it allows water to be used without a long...
selectProperties, then choose theScreen Savertab. Here you set the screen saver attributes. Click on thePowerbutton to set the power management options. In Ubuntu go toSystem -> Preferences ->Screensaver. You can click on thePower Managementbutton from there. Typical Linux Screen Saver and Power...
Gas meter is a pretty traditional old thing, but the only place the supply goes to is the boiler and that measures its own use, so if it was possible to get all three together and unify the data it’d be like having an all-utilities smart meter under my own control… Mark Penrice ...
When I was a small child, my father came home from work on a hot day in August and I ran outside barefoot onto the sidewalk to greet him and my feet started burning. I began crying due to the pain so my Dad picked me up and put me on the grass and my feet stopped burning. He...
Introduction Since the beginning of the 20th century, anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions [1] have caused a steady rise in the mean annual temperature around the world. In Germany, the reported increase from 1881 to 2014 was 1.3 ◦C [2]. Besides the temperature increase, climatic ...
The joule is a common unit of energy—defined as the amount of energy it takes to apply a force of one newton through a distance of one meter3. While the sun’s joules can provide any animal with heat and light, the joules that power all of us from the inside enter the biosphere in...