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An introduction to the exploitation of two forms of geothermal energy in the UK (aquifers and the hydrofracturing of hot dry rocks) as sources of hot water for space heating and other low temperature process...
The need for power was fundamental to the expanding industries of the 18th and 19th centuries. Water power was the first answer, but the geographical limitations led to the development of steam power in the...
Shows examples of newly designed power plants, exploiting wind energy, subsidised either through private or government initiatives. The largest and most powerful being GROWIAN serving approximately 4000...
In August 1982 at the prototype fast reactor, Dounreay, new fuel assemblies, containing plutonium originally created in this reactor, were loaded into the reactor core for the first time. This marked the...
About thermodynamics and the irreversibility of time. Deals with Kelvin’s attempts to establish scientifically the age of the earth. Shows the importance of steam power to 19th-century science and...
An account of the mining and refining of uranium showing how the development of energy from uranium is providing much of the world’s current needs.
The case for nuclear power. Assembles facts and arguments to show that nuclear power is a well established and safe source of energy. Much of the evidence comes from British Nuclear Fuels, Central...
3: The last piecing machine to operate in Britain was filmed at Bridgend on the Isle of Islay. The piecing machine’s function was to join the strips of wool, produced by the carding machine, to form...
The COSS collector is a solar energy collector with segmented mirrors. The 72-mirror prototype has been successfully used in experiments at the Centre for Nuclear Energy in Caradache. In sunny regions such...
Surveys research into methods of obtaining energy from the sun, including direct solar heating from within and outside the atmosphere, and other indirect sources of energy from natural terrestrial solar...
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