· Simon Bolwig1 Received: 8 December 2023 / Accepted: 27 October 2024 / Published online: 7 December 2024 © The Author(s) 2024 Abstract Despite increasing acknowledgement of the diversity and different a
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and began to hold government and business responsible for the massive ecological prob- lems that surfaced in the course of the 1960s.1 By 2010 social unrest posed a serious threat to Dutch democracy while in the background the country's natural capital was being consumed at alarming rates. ...
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“He won’t talk to you on the phone,”Dario Ventura said of his father, Miguel Ventura, owner of his namesake restaurant in Eastern Kentucky’s Red River Gorge. The restaurant was closed for two more weeks during Miguel’s annual winter break. Over the course of its many iterations, Mig...
It was found that more power can be recovered from the discarded brine from the solo RO unit than the hybrid HDH-RO unit. In addition, the solo RO desalination system, working directly with the power of the wind turbine, has a less complex configuration, and hence its investment cost ...