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The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla (Lost Science)

Adventures Unlimited Press, 1993

While a large portion of the European family has been surging westward during the last three or four hundred years, settling the vast continents of America, another, but smaller, portion has been doing frontier work in the Old World, protecting the rear by beating back the "unspeakable Turk" and reclaiming gradually the...

Hack This: 24 Incredible Hackerspace Projects from the DIY Movement

Que, 2011

Join today’s new revolution in creativity and community: hackerspaces. Stop letting other people build everything for you: Do it yourself. Explore, grab the tools, get hands-on, get dirty…and create things you never imagined you could. Hack This is your glorious, full-color passport to the...

Development and Modelling of a Thermophotovoltaic System

Kassel University, 2008

The thermophotovoltaic (TPV) generation of electricity is based on the direct conversion of a thermal radiation coming from an emitter at high temperature into electric power by using photovoltaic (PV) cells. As shown in Figure 1.1 a heat source (generally a combustion process) is used to heat up an emitter material that converts...

Brain, Mind and Medicine: Essays in Eighteenth-Century Neuroscience

Springer, 2007

The idea for a volume on eighteenth-century studies of brain and behavior originated during a joint International Society for the History of the Neurosciences (ISHN) and Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology/Neuropsychologie Expérimentale et Théorique (TENNET) symposium held in Montreal in June...

Environmental Monitoring with Arduino: Building Simple Devices to Collect Data About the World Around Us

Make Books, 2012

After the devastating tsunami in 2011, DYIers in Japan built their own devices to detect radiation levels, then posted their finding on the Internet. Right now, thousands of people worldwide are tracking environmental conditions with monitoring devices they’ve built themselves. You can do it too!

This inspiring...

Nonviral Vectors for Gene Therapy, Part 2, Volume 54, Second Edition (Advances in Genetics)

Academic Press, 2005

Since the pioneering discovery by Felgner et al. (1987) that cationic lipid can efficiently transfect cells, there was a surge of research activity in this area. The field received another boost when Nabel et al. (1993) successfully completed a small phase I clinical trial in gene therapy of melanoma using cationic liposome as a...

Moving To The Cloud: Developing Apps in the New World of Cloud Computing

Syngress Publishing, 2011

Information is the most valuable resource in the 21st century. Whether for a consumer looking for a restaurant in San Francisco, a small business woman checking textile prices in Bangalore, or a financial services executive in London studying stock market trends, information at the moment of decision is key in providing the...

Applied Cyber Security and the Smart Grid: Implementing Security Controls into the Modern Power Infrastructure

Syngress Publishing, 2013

Cyber security is big business today. Smart Grid is big business today. Therefore let’s put the two together and write a book? Well, surely there will be some individuals that may make that assumption as to the motivation behind the publication of this book. The real motivation behind the development of this book is because...

Global Energy Policy and Security (Lecture Notes in Energy)

Springer, 2013

Despite efforts to increase renewables, the global energy mix is still likely to be dominated by fossil-fuels in the foreseeable future, particularly gas for electricity and oil for land, air and sea transport. The reliance on depleting conventional oil and natural gas resources and the geographic distribution of these reserves can have...

Optimization and Security Challenges in Smart Power Grids (Energy Systems)

Springer, 2013

This book provides an overview of state-of-the-art research on “Systems and Optimization Aspects of Smart Grid Challenges.” The authors have compiled and integrated different aspects of applied systems optimization research to smart grids, and also describe some of its critical challenges and requirements.

The promise...

Onshore and Offshore Wind Energy: An Introduction

John Wiley & Sons, 2011

A highly accessible and authoritative account of wind energy’s scientific background, current technology, and international status, with an emphasis on large turbines and wind farms, both onshore and offshore

Topics covered include:

a brief history of wind energy

the...

RF Microelectronics (2nd Edition)

Prentice Hall, 2011

The Acclaimed RF Microelectronics Best-Seller, Expanded and Updated for the Newest Architectures, Circuits, and Devices

Wireless communication has become almost as ubiquitous as electricity, but RF design continues to challenge engineers and...

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