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By outlining a new design or the Kuroshio power plant, new
approaches to turbine design, anchorage system planning, deep sea
marine engineering and power plant operations and maintenance are
explored and suggested. The impact on the local environment,
particularly in the face of natural disasters, is also considered
to provide a well rounded introduction to plan and build a 30MW
pilot power plant. Following a literature review, the six chapters
of this book propose a conceptual design by focusing on the plant's
core technologies and establish the separate analysis logics for
turbine design and the relay platforms. This is tempered against
the ecological impact of both the construction and operation of the
plant. These proposed technologies and plans can be further applied
to power generation in other waters such as the Gulf Stream, the
East Australian Current the Humboldt Current and the East Africa
Coastal Current. Engineers, students and industry professionals are
provided with a solid introduction to power plant technology as
well as a design with specific real world applications
By outlining a new design or the Kuroshio power plant, new
approaches to turbine design, anchorage system planning, deep sea
marine engineering and power plant operations and maintenance are
explored and suggested. The impact on the local environment,
particularly in the face of natural disasters, is also considered
to provide a well rounded introduction to plan and build a 30MW
pilot power plant. Following a literature review, the six chapters
of this book propose a conceptual design by focusing on the plant's
core technologies and establish the separate analysis logics for
turbine design and the relay platforms. This is tempered against
the ecological impact of both the construction and operation of the
plant. These proposed technologies and plans can be further applied
to power generation in other waters such as the Gulf Stream, the
East Australian Current the Humboldt Current and the East Africa
Coastal Current. Engineers, students and industry professionals are
provided with a solid introduction to power plant technology as
well as a design with specific real world applications
The development of science has been an ideological struggle that
lasted over three millennia. At and after the times of the
Babylonian Empire, however, the pace of scientific evolution was
painfully slow. This situation changed after Copernicus
kick-started the Scientific Revolution with his heliocentric
theory. Newton's law of universal gravitation transformed natural
philosophy, previously focused on mythology and abstract
philosophical thinking, into an orderly and rational physical
science. Einstein's redefinition of space and time revealed a new
and central principle of the Universe, paving the way for the huge
amounts of energy held deep inside physical matter to be released.
To this day, many of the our known physical theories represent an
accumulation of changing knowledge over the long course of
scientific history. But what kind of changes did the scientists
see? What questions did they address? What methods did they use?
What difficulties did they encounter? And what kind of persecution
might they have faced on the road to discovering these beautiful,
sometimes almost mystical, ideas? This book's purpose is to
investigate these questions. It leads the reader through the
stories behind major scientific advancements and their theories, as
well as explaining associated examples and hypotheses. Over the
course of the journey, readers will come to understand the way
scientists explore nature and how scientific theories are applied
to natural phenomena and every-day technology.
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