Sleuth Regan Reilly and her husband, Jack, return to New York from their honeymoon in Ireland and discover that their next-door neighbor has put up his apartment for sale. They decide to buy it and enlarge the loft Jack lived in as a bachelor. Regan takes time off from her work as a Private Investigator to supervise the construction, while Jack resumes his job as head of the Manhattan Major Case Squad. On a sweltering summer night, a major blackout...

"Describes how wind can be used to produce useful energy."--From source other than the Library of Congress

Wind power: it's sustainable...it burns no fossil fuels...it produces no air pollution. What's more, it cuts down dependency on foreign oil. That's what the people of Meredith, NY first thought when a wind developer looked to supplement the rural farm town's failing economy with a farm of their own - that of 40 industrial wind turbines. But when a group of townspeople discover the impacts that a 400-foot high windmill could bring to their community,...

Este libro tiene como objetivo facilitar a los lectores, tanto personal técnico como estudiantes universitarios, el acceso al mundo del vehículo eléctrico. El libro guía al lector a través de un recorrido que engloba tanto los inicios del vehículo eléctrico y su evolución como las tendencias del mercado automovilístico actual, el futuro del sistema de distribución eléctrico existente y la integración de las redes inteligentes, como punto...

En el último siglo, millones de usuarios conducen un coche a diario sin necesidad de tener conocimientos mecánicos, simplemente estamos acostumbrados a los términos relacionados con los coches de combustión. Pero esto no ha sido siempre así y hubo mucho que aprender en sus inicios. Es justo el momento en el que se encuentran los protagonistas de este libro, los coches eléctricos. Lo que a día de hoy son incógnitas, en un tiempo serán respuestas...

Most people have fantasized about stepping into the future, if only for a moment. Will there be flying cars? Will buildings be sleek, "smart," and clean, or will they, be just one more dysfunctional component of a decaying infrastructure? Will there be robots everywhere? Will we have clean energy and clear skies or polluted air and water? The evolution of buildings, transportation and power will determine how our future looks and feels, and in this...

This booklet is intended to supplement the textbook selected for use in the basic Mechanical Engineering design course. The materials presented herein can be covered in depth over a period of three hours, or one week of a typical single semester course. This booklet has been written in simple terms so that it can be read and understood by third year Mechanical Engineering students who have had little or no exposure to the fundamental concepts of occupational...

We visit the largest geothermal operation in the world to see how heat from the earth's core is transformed into electricity. We meet a chemist, geologist, plant operator, environmental manager and engineer as they show us how they manage steam production wells and electric generators. This growing field relies not just on professionals with advanced degrees but entry- level workers who drill the wells and maintain the power plants in this vanguard...