Analysis of the future effects of the fuel shortage and increased small car usage upon traffic deaths and injuries. Final report. Executive summary.

Transportation Department, Office of Systems Engineering, Washington, D.C.

Transportation contingency plans for future gas shortages will not meet commuter needs. Comptroller General's report to the Congress of the United States.

Mode of access: Internet.

Our nuclear future; facts, dangers, and opportunities,

Mode of access: Internet.

Energy and economic impacts of projected freight transportation improvements. Final report.

Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, Mass.

The coal future : economic and technological analysis of initiatives and innovations to secure fuel supply independence /

Includes bibliographies.

Opportunities for advanced ceramics to meet the needs of the industries of the future /

"DOE/ORO 2076."

Executive summary of systems analysis to develop future civil aircraft noise reduction alternatives /

Mode of access: Internet.

The future of nuclear science /

Summary of a conference held Sept. 23-25, 1946 at Princeton University.

A report on wind energy /

Presents an overview of the wind energy industry and discusses potential future wind energy development in Illinois.

Assessment of future economic tradeoffs between coal mining and agriculture /

Project no.: 80.214.

Illinois statewide electric utility plan : optioning resources for the future, 1992-2012.

"ILENR/RE-SP-91/02-1-3."

Department of Defense authorization for appropriations for fiscal year 1998 and the future years defense program : hearings before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, first session, on S. 939

Shipping list no.: 98-0089-P (pt. 4), 98-0052-P (pt. 5), 98-0029-P (pt. 6).

Fuel cells, hydrogen and energy supply in Australia

Australia is unique in terms of its geography, population distribution, and energy sources. It has an abundance of fossil fuel in the form of coal, natural gas, coal seam methane (CSM), oil, and a variety renewable energy sources that are under development. Unfortunately, most of the natural gas is located so far away from the main centres of population that it is more economic to ship the energy as LNG to neighboring countries. Electricity generation is the largest consumer of energy in Australia and accounts for around 50% of greenhouse gas emissions as 84% of electricity is produced from coal. Unless these emissions are curbed, there is a risk of increasing temperatures throughout the country and associated climatic instability. To address this, research is underway to develop coal gasification and processes for the capture and sequestration Of CO2. Alternative transport fuels such as biodiesel are being introduced to help reduce emissions from vehicles. The future role of hydrogen is being addressed in a national study commissioned this year by the federal government. Work at the University of Queensland is also addressing full-cycle analysis of hydrogen production, transport, storage, and utilization for both stationary and transport applications. There is a modest but growing amount of university research in fuel cells in Australia, and an increasing interest from industry. Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd. (CFCL) has a leading position in planar solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) technology, which is being developed for a variety of applications, and next year Perth in Western Australia is hosting a trial of buses powered by proton-exchange fuel cells. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Coral mortality increases wave energy reaching shores protected by reef flats: Examples from the Seychelles

In the granitic Seychelles, many shores and beaches are fringed by coral reef flats which provide protection to shores from erosion by waves. The surfaces of these reef flats support a complex ecology. About 10 years ago their seaward zones were extensively covered by a rich coral growth, which reached approximately to mean low water level, but in 1998 this was largely killed by seawater warming. The resulting large expanses of dead coral skeletons in these locations are now disintegrating, and much of the subsequent modest recovery by new coral recruitment was set back by further mortalities. A mathematical model of wave energy reaching shorelines protected by coral reef flats has been applied to 14 Seychelles reefs. It is derived from equations which predict: (1) the raised water level, or wave set-up, on reef flats resulting from wave breaking, which depends upon offshore wave height and period, depth of still water over the reef flat and the reef crest profile, and (2) the decay of energy from reef edge to shoreline that is affected by width of reef flat, surface roughness, sea level rise and 'pseudo-sea level rise' created by increased depth resulting from disintegration of coral colonies. The model treats each reef as one entity, but because biota and zonation on reef flats are not homogenous, all reefs are divided into four zones. In each, cover by both living and dead biota was estimated for calculation of parameters, and then averaged to obtain input data for the model. All possible biological factors were taken into account, such as the ability of seagrass beds to grow upwards to match expected sea level rise, reduction in height of the reef flat in relation to sea level as zones of dead corals decay, and the observed 'rounding' of reef crests as erosion removes corals from those areas. Estimates were also made of all these factors for a time approximately a decade ago, representing a time before the mass coral mortality, and for approximately a decade in the future when the observed rapid state of dead coral colony disintegration is assumed to have reached an end point. Results of increased energy over the past decade explain observations of erosion in some sites in the Seychelles. Most importantly, it is estimated that the rise in energy reaching shores protected by fringing reefs will now accelerate more rapidly, such that the increase expected over the next decade will be approximately double than that seen over the past decade. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.