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  • Environmental justice and energy production : coal-fired power plants in Illinois

    Creator:
    Clark, Catherine
    Abstract:
    The environmental justice framework has been applied to many environmentally negative issues in the past such as toxic storage and disposal facilities, toxic release inventory sites, air quality, transportation, and global climate change. It has not yet been applied to energy production in a quantitative study. This study investigates the...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    against the plant, PERRO diversified its goals to include the Fisk power plant and the coal based energy

  • Wind Farming vs Mobile Gear Fishing: is there room for a bargain?

    Creator:
    Wiersma, Joshua
    Abstract:
    A private power company, Cape Wind Inc., wants to develop the largest wind farm in United States history off the coast of Cape Cod Massachusetts in a twenty-five square mile area of Nantucket Sound known as Horseshoe Shoal (HSS). However, Cape Wind must compete for the use of this area...
    Resource Type:
    Other
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    power company, Cape Wind Inc., wants to develop the largest wind farm in United States history off the

  • Essays in semiparametric econometrics

    Creator:
    Livingston, Olga Voyteshenko
    Abstract:
    Two essays are focused on semiparametric econometric methods. The first essay investigates applicability of the smooth back tting estimator (SBE) to statistical analysis of residential energy consumption. The second essay attempts to incorporate additivity restrictions into semiparametric stochastic frontier estimation. The procedure described in the first study is used to...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    power-generating units in the US. Essays in Semiparametric Econometrics by Olga Voyteshenko

  • Experimental investigation of liquid entrainment in a reactor hot-leg with a vertical branch

    Creator:
    Welter, Kent B.
    Abstract:
    A literature review of current phase separation publications was conducted. Data sets were collected and compiled into a Two-Phase Flow Separation Database. Examination of this database indicating a need for further investigation into the liquid entertainment phenomena for smaller hot-leg to branch diameters and intermittent flow regimes. A detailed analysis...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • A high power emulation of a wind farm

    Creator:
    Lalla, Chelsea
    Abstract:
    As more wind farms are connected to the grid, the variable nature of wind energy begins to influence grid stability. Energy storage could help smooth the variable nature of wind energy. Laboratory demonstration and exploration of the interaction between different energy storage devices and wind energy could help improve and...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    presented on September 18, 2009. Title: A High Power Emulation of a Wind Farm. Abstract approved

  • Climbing the mountain within : understanding development impacts and overcoming change in rural southwest China

    Creator:
    Clark, Marco
    Abstract:
    Development in China over the last thirty years has emphasized infrastructural and economic advancement. Despite enormous gains in living standards in the industrialized eastern provinces, much of China's interior and western provinces remain relatively underdeveloped. Populated mostly by ethnic minorities, the southwest province of Yunnan (meaning south of the clouds)...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    :
Political
Ecology,
Xibukaifa
(Opening
the
West
Campaign),
Critical
 Development,
Hydroelectric
Power
Station