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Book Synopsis Macro-engineering And The Future by : Frank P. Davidson
Download or read book Macro-engineering And The Future written by Frank P. Davidson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macro-engineering projects--enormous undertakings such as the design and construction of new cities, energy islands, and even outer-space industrial complexes--require bold vision, courage, and optimism as well as engineering and management skills. The need for individuals with these qualities is growing as the United States faces its greatest chal
Download or read book Macro-Engineering written by V. Badescu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-27 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macro-engineering involves the large-scale modification and manipulation of natural systems for the benefit of mankind. The primary goals of some Earth-based macroprojects described in this book are power production, land reclamation, food production, climate change, water, transport and coastal protection. Other Earth or space projects considered here have a more futuristic ring, but our present-day technical skill makes their realization possible.
Book Synopsis How Big And Still Beautiful?: Macro- Engineering Revisited by : Frank P. Davidson
Download or read book How Big And Still Beautiful?: Macro- Engineering Revisited written by Frank P. Davidson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines fundamental issues of macro-engineering—now a planetary norm—from the viewpoints of psychiatry, social science, management, and law. The contributors suggest a general theory to guide future decisions on large-scale projects and programs and analyze specific cases in the context of a set of public-interest guidelines.
Book Synopsis How Big And Still Beautiful?: Macro- Engineering Revisited by : Frank P. Davidson
Download or read book How Big And Still Beautiful?: Macro- Engineering Revisited written by Frank P. Davidson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines fundamental issues of macro-engineering—now a planetary norm—from the viewpoints of psychiatry, social science, management, and law. The contributors suggest a general theory to guide future decisions on large-scale projects and programs and analyze specific cases in the context of a set of public-interest guidelines.
Book Synopsis Macro-Engineering and the Earth by : U W Kitzinger
Download or read book Macro-Engineering and the Earth written by U W Kitzinger and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1998-11-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work delivers ideas, comments and projects on energy, communications, transport, management, human resources, and financial and legal issues which macroengineering can contribute towards the solution of the Earth's environmental problems. Some 20 engineers and scholars identify problems in the next century whose solutions call for international policy planning and a more collaborative, peaceful and prosperous world order. Imaginative concepts employ forward thinking for applying technology in revolutionary projects. The book presents results of research on a triple helical turbine capable of extracting vast amounts of energy from slow-moving water, an invention which could harness rivers and ocean currents, rendering high dams (with their political, social and ecological implications) redundant. These turbines are already in mass production in the USA for use in the Gulf Stream to produce energy and hydrogen fuel, and can also be used to harness power from the wind. Another project, for which the technology is already available, will harvest solar energy by satellites stationed beyond our atmosphere and beam it to the Earth; and yet another calls for planetary defence of Earth against asteroid collisions. The environmental section discusses large projects for changing our climate, planning and costing for a sub-Mediterranean aqueduct connecting the River Rhone in France with Algeria, and plans for intensive fish farming of the oceans. The role of satellites includes telemedicine, and there are Swiss plans for further tunnelling through the Alps. Project management sections include the formation of a military-civilian conservation corps, financial and legal issues, macro-projects in China, and a forecast of 21st century macro-problems. Delivers ideas, comments and projects on energy, communications, transport, management, human resources, and financial and legal issues which macroengineering can contribute to the solution of the Earth’s environmental problems Identifies problems in the next century whose solutions call for international policy planning and a more collaborative, peaceful and prosperous world order Presents research on a triple helical turbine capable of extracting vast amounts of energy from slow-moving water
Book Synopsis Macro-engineering Seawater in Unique Environments by : Viorel Badescu
Download or read book Macro-engineering Seawater in Unique Environments written by Viorel Badescu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subjects refer to histories of ancient and modern use of seacoasts; possible macro-projects capable of massive changes in the coastlines of the Dead Sea, Red Sea and Persian Gulf caused by canal and massively scaled hydropower dam installations; relevant macro-projects for the Black Sea and Baltic Sea; possibilities of refreshment of the Aral Sea and Iran’s Lake Uremia with seawater or river freshwater importation macro-projects; potential rehabilitation of some vital arid zone regions now dominated by moving or movable surface granular materials using unique and unusual macro-projects; seawater flooding of land regions situated below present-day global sea-level; harnessing energy and obtaining freshwater from the world’s salt-laden ocean by modern industrial means; various macro-projects designed specifically for the protection (reduction of vulnerability) of particular Earth geographical regions.
Download or read book Macro-Engineering written by F P Davidson and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1997-06-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume makes available a reflection on large-scale engineering for building a better world. International authorities from engineering, oceanography, academia, public service, and law describe how great and imaginative concepts may be refined, tested, adapted, financed, implemented and put to use. Here are records and commentaries about some of the world's significant engineering achievements, including the planning and design of Nigeria's new capital city, and the use of software by the US military to clean up the Exxon-Valdez oil spill pollution in Alaska. Describes a method of large-scale engineering for building a better world Provides records and commentaries about significant engineering achievements International authorities from engineering, oceanography, academia, public service and law describe how great and imaginative concepts may be refined, tested, adapted, financed and implemented
Book Synopsis How Big and Still Beautiful? by : Frank P. Davidson
Download or read book How Big and Still Beautiful? written by Frank P. Davidson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines fundamental issues of macro-engineering from the viewpoints of psychiatry, management, and law. It describes a general theory to guide future decisions on large-scale projects and programs, and discusses the cases in the context of a set of public-interest guidelines.
Book Synopsis Engineering Your Future: An Australasian Guide, 4th Edition by : David Dowling
Download or read book Engineering Your Future: An Australasian Guide, 4th Edition written by David Dowling and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dowling’s Engineering Your Future: An Australasian Guide, Fourth Edition is used for first year, core subjects across all Engineering disciplines. Building on the previous editions, this text has been updated with new references, while still maintaining a strong and practical emphasis on skills that are essential for problem solving and design. Numerous topical and locally focused examples of projects across engineering disciplines help demonstrate the role and responsibilities of a professional engineer. Themes of sustainability, ethical practice and effective communication are a constant throughout the text. This full-coloured print with interactive e-text resource has a variety of digital media embedded at the point of learning such as videos and knowledge-check questions to engage students and to help consolidate their learning.
Book Synopsis Macro-engineering And The Infrastructure Of Tomorrow by : Frank P Davidson
Download or read book Macro-engineering And The Infrastructure Of Tomorrow written by Frank P Davidson and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Macro-projects by : Alexander Bolonkin
Download or read book Macro-projects written by Alexander Bolonkin and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes many new macro-projects, both USA and other countries patented concepts, speculative macro-engineering ideas, and other general innovations in technology and environmental change. These all hold the enticing promise for a true revolution in the lives of humans everywhere in the Solar System. Here, the authors include and review new methods for travel in outer space, promising means to increase the safety of aviation, comfortable permanent settlements on the Moon and Mars, as well as for Earth's hazardous polar regions, control of local and global weather conditions, new methods of irrigation "without water", conversion of cold and hot deserts and Earth's non-twin polar regions to 'evergreen' gardens, protection against forecasted hurricane storm surge waves and inundations, unpredictable tsunami, and other weather-related floods, cheap protection of cities against nuclear warheads and aviation bombs, magnetic aircraft, channels for free travelling in outer space, thermonuclear reactors, wind power stations, along with many others. They succinctly summarise some of these revolutionary macro-projects, concepts, ideas, innovations, and methods for scientists, engineers, technical students, and the world public. They do seek future attention from the general public, other macro-engineers, inventors, as well as scientists of all persuasions for these presented innovations. And, naturally, they fervently hope the popular news media, various governments and the large international aerospace and other engineering-focused corporations will, as well, increase their respective observation, R&D activity in the technologies for living and the surrounding human environment.
Book Synopsis The Management of Projects by : Peter W. G. Morris
Download or read book The Management of Projects written by Peter W. G. Morris and published by Thomas Telford. This book was released on 1994 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will undoubtedly become one of the classics of the project management literature.There will be a growing need for project managers who can look beyond the internal processes of their projects to the organisational, technological and socio-economic contexts in which projects must be managed. A good starting point would be for all project managers to read this.book.- Construction Management and Economics
Download or read book Macro written by Frank Paul Davidson and published by New York : W. Morrow. This book was released on 1983 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Anticipating Future Innovation Pathways Through Large Data Analysis by : Tugrul U. Daim
Download or read book Anticipating Future Innovation Pathways Through Large Data Analysis written by Tugrul U. Daim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to identify promising future developmental opportunities and applications for Tech Mining. Specifically, the enclosed contributions will pursue three converging themes: The increasing availability of electronic text data resources relating to Science, Technology and Innovation (ST&I). The multiple methods that are able to treat this data effectively and incorporate means to tap into human expertise and interests. Translating those analyses to provide useful intelligence on likely future developments of particular emerging S&T targets. Tech Mining can be defined as text analyses of ST&I information resources to generate Competitive Technical Intelligence (CTI). It combines bibliometrics and advanced text analytic, drawing on specialized knowledge pertaining to ST&I. Tech Mining may also be viewed as a special form of “Big Data” analytics because it searches on a target emerging technology (or key organization) of interest in global databases. One then downloads, typically, thousands of field-structured text records (usually abstracts), and analyses those for useful CTI. Forecasting Innovation Pathways (FIP) is a methodology drawing on Tech Mining plus additional steps to elicit stakeholder and expert knowledge to link recent ST&I activity to likely future development. A decade ago, we demeaned Management of Technology (MOT) as somewhat self-satisfied and ignorant. Most technology managers relied overwhelmingly on casual human judgment, largely oblivious of the potential of empirical analyses to inform R&D management and science policy. CTI, Tech Mining, and FIP are changing that. The accumulation of Tech Mining research over the past decade offers a rich resource of means to get at emerging technology developments and organizational networks to date. Efforts to bridge from those recent histories of development to project likely FIP, however, prove considerably harder. One focus of this volume is to extend the repertoire of information resources; that will enrich FIP. Featuring cases of novel approaches and applications of Tech Mining and FIP, this volume will present frontier advances in ST&I text analytics that will be of interest to students, researchers, practitioners, scholars and policy makers in the fields of R&D planning, technology management, science policy and innovation strategy.
Book Synopsis Macro-engineering by : C. Lawrence Meador
Download or read book Macro-engineering written by C. Lawrence Meador and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1992 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a series of lectures delivered over a 10-year period on the theory and practice of macro-engineering. It examines closed system habitats, power transmission satellites, the use of artificial islands and the possibility of the colonization of the Moon.
Book Synopsis The Future of Post-Human Engineering by : Peter Baofu
Download or read book The Future of Post-Human Engineering written by Peter Baofu and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why should mass media be informational and accurate as much as its proponents would claim—and, conversely, disinformational and propagandistic as much as its critics would argue? Contrary to the conventional wisdom held by many since the modern era of mass media, neither of the two opposing views is correct, to the extent that a total analysis of media influence has yet to be adequately explored and understood. Something fundamentally vital to the analysis of communication has been missing. This is not to say, however, that the literature on media studies hitherto existing in history has been much ado about nothing; on the contrary, indeed, much can be learned from different theoretical approaches in the field. But the important point to remember here is that this book aims to show an alternative (better) way to understand the nature of mass media (which goes beyond both the pros and cons in the literature on media influence, while learning from them all). If true, this seminal view will alter the way of how mass media are to be understood, with its enormous theoretical implications for going beyond the existing paradigms on the future of communication, in a small sense—and for predicting the future of open and closed societies, in a large sense.
Download or read book Terraforming Mars written by Martin Beech and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TERRAFORMING MARS This book provides a thorough scientific review of how Mars might eventually be colonized, industrialized, and transformed into a world better suited to human habitation. The idea of terraforming Mars has, in recent times, become a topic of intense scientific interest and great public debate. Stimulated in part by the contemporary imperative to begin geoengineering Earth, as a means to combat global climate change, the terraforming of Mars will work to make its presently hostile environment more suitable to life—especially human life. Geoengineering and terraforming, at their core, have the same goal—that is to enhance (or revive) the ability of a specific environment to support human life, society, and industry. The chapters in this text, written by experts in their respective fields, are accordingly in resonance with the important, and ongoing discussions concerning the human stewardship of global climate systems. In this sense, the text is both timely and relevant and will cover issues relating to topics that will only grow in their relevance in future decades. The notion of terraforming Mars is not a new one, as such, and it has long played as the background narrative in many science fiction novels. This book, however, deals exclusively with what is physically possible, and what might conceivably be put into actual practice within the next several human generations. Audience Researchers in planetary science, astronomy, astrobiology, space engineering, architecture, ethics, as well as members of the space industry.
